Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even at this early stage of contact between white and black in Britain , it is clear that she would have been building on already existing racial caricature and prejudice rather than creating an artificial tide of hostility against black people . |
| 2 | Oh what you 've just been hanging around too much . |
| 3 | ‘ We have been living in very poor lodgings , but hope soon to find better ones . ’ |
| 4 | Once he had told her , in a mood of taunting cruelty that sometimes overtook him , that he had been saving up quietly all these years , enough money " to be rid of you for ever " . |
| 5 | I think it 's level , I think the , the benefit just stays the same cos the , the cost has n't increased it 's been like that for oh she 's been paying round about twelve pounds a month now for as long as I can remember . |
| 6 | It might be my fault , perhaps I 've been rushing around too much cos that affects your milk supply of course . |
| 7 | It , I mean it has been going up rather high , this has been |
| 8 | ‘ This had been going on almost all the time since yesterday , with two German counter attacks on our positions . ’ |
| 9 | The debate about the vulnerability of land-based missiles has been going on so long that a few cynics have begun to wonder if it matters all that much . |
| 10 | Do you know me and Ted have been married thirty year no not thirty , they 've been going out together thirty years |
| 11 | Some hours later , after a torrential thunderstorm , the wriggling foot , that had been kicking in very strange places , finally broke through and I soke at five in the morning with a warm , wet feeling . |
| 12 | So went out and I was feeling really tired but I thought well I just been getting up very early in the mornings so |
| 13 | I 've been holding back again this passion . |
| 14 | And the blinking machines been letting down so much ! |
| 15 | Comrade Wu has been kindly giving us Chinese lessons in the evening whenever we have some spare time , so you can tell that his tuition , what little I was able to attend , has been coming in very useful . |
| 16 | I ge to be honest though erm half the problem 's been I think that it 's been spoiling off so much crap , you know when I was doing those little things |
| 17 | =ime of relentless violence in the province as the I R A continues its killings , Loyalist paramilitaries have also been carrying out almost one attack a day . |
| 18 | For them the time must have flown by , but for me it seemed as if I 'd been standing out there all morning ! |
| 19 | Everyone said I looked worn out and must have been gadding about too much ! |
| 20 | Mr Clarke has been indulging in just that himself , putting up the luckless Duncan Nichol , chief executive of the health service , to take the initial flak under the pretence that the dispute is not his direct responsibility . |