Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 2 | Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever . |
| 3 | Tonight was just the culmination of what 's been building up for a long time . ’ |
| 4 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 5 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 6 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 7 | The two of them had been at daggers drawn ever since 1183 , and in recent months , as incident followed incident , tension had been building up to a new peak . |
| 8 | With the tent flap closed , the heat had been building up under the canvas . |
| 9 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 10 | Towards the end of the 19th century , a crisis had been building up over the names of organic compounds . |
| 11 | While his loving note helped to sooth her misgivings , it was difficult to control the inner turmoil which had been building up over the months . |
| 12 | These were Wilson and Castle 's response to the ‘ unofficial strike problem ’ which had been building up over the '60s but had acquired particular prominence in 1968 with the publication of the Donovan Commission 's report . |
| 13 | For Alfred Watkins , it was not a sudden flash of inspiration from the beyond but something which had been building up within the deeper levels of his being throughout a lifetime of contact with his native countryside . |
| 14 | Pressures for change had been building up within the legislature for some time and these were to be given added impetus by the events surrounding the resignation of President Nixon . |
| 15 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 16 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
| 17 | I ca n't believe it , I 've been slagging off for the three weeks this is crap , this is really naff . |
| 18 | The group members have not been idle during their enforced stay from Glenburrell Bridge as we have been helping out on the Society 's stall at local shows as well as building Thomas , The Tank Engine and , having purchased the show stand that we used to borrow , we are now adapting this stand for our own use at shows . |
| 19 | A Mirror Group Newspapers spokesman adds : ‘ Since Mr Maxwell died , Helen Liddell has been helping out with the group . |
| 20 | A few major labels have been sniffing around on the strength of ‘ Rockin' The Forest ’ . |
| 21 | Less robust , but far more weighty , messages of similar import from Conservative back-benchers have been raining down on the heads of Norman Lamont and John Major since Tuesday 's announcement that VAT will be imposed on domestic gas , electricity and coal . |
| 22 | The shift , if that 's what it is , mirrors the way shipments have been shaping up during the three months since they started . |
| 23 | Well it maybe , you see I 've had this , this has been hanging around for a month |
| 24 | And Miss Haines , as Clara suddenly realized , with a curious tremor of conviction , had actually been hanging around in the corridor waiting for her to emerge . |
| 25 | In their defence the party leadership could argue that they had been hampered by the lack of a parliamentary majority ; the choice had been hanging on by the skin of one 's teeth or of giving up and holding an election in the face of adverse opinion polls . |
| 26 | This has been hanging about for a long , long time while I 've been on this and these people and they 're very special people I 've got this sword of hanging over my head . |
| 27 | Police said : ‘ He appears to have been hanging out of the window as a prank . |
| 28 | So , when I have n't been gazing out of the window , phoning every friend I ever had , dashing up the street in an urgent quest for … er … something or other I 'm desperate for or singing along to Melody Radio at the top of my thorax — I 've been noticing things . |
| 29 | I raised with David Ingram at my JAR a matter which I 've been mulling over for a while , arising from my role as Welfare Officer . |
| 30 | He mumbled that he was still in a state of shock and had been walking around in a dream all day . |