Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Carlists had been building up the paramilitary Requeté since the early days of the Republic and seriously preparing for a rising since 1934 . |
| 2 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 3 | THE mix-up that means two families may have been bringing up the wrong babies could have happened in a fire alert , it emerged yesterday . |
| 4 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 5 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 6 | They have complained that traffic has been going down the one-in-three gradient Bay Bank into the old part of the village which is prevented when police have been on duty in the past . |
| 7 | They were always a big league band in the States , but it 's only in the last five years or so that they have been rising up the Euro league . |
| 8 | The problem with industry-funded research has always been sorting out the intellectual property rights . |
| 9 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 10 | Mothers of younger and younger children have been taking on the dual burden of paid work and child rearing ( see Hunt , 1968 ; Martin and Roberts , 1984 ; Joshi , 1985 ) . |
| 11 | Despite it all , though , you may end up looking a bit foolish if you find you 've been barking up the wrong tree . |
| 12 | I realized then that we 'd been barking up the wrong tree . ’ |
| 13 | Till now , Ken Livingstone had been putting up a good show , joking about John Smith serving as his deputy and arguing for defence cuts to pay for benefits rather than tax increases . |
| 14 | ‘ Quite a number of our staff live in Wimbledon and some practical jokers have been putting up the other Graham Hadley 's pamphlets , ’ he says . |
| 15 | The younger John claimed that Langton had been carrying on an adulterous relationship with his stepmother Joan . |
| 16 | These compensatory orders can only be obtained against the contravener who , for section 6 purposes , has been carrying on the unauthorised investment business , or who , for section 61 purposes , has contravened one or other of the statutory provisions referred to in section 61(1) ( a ) . |
| 17 | At Warwick University ( England ) , doctors Steve Van Toller and George Dodd have been carrying out a great deal of research in recent years into the relationship between smell and emotion . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , forensic experts have been carrying out a thorough examination of the lonely cottage where Jonathan and Tania had met shortly before she disappeared . |
| 19 | Researchers at Gloucesters public health laboratories have been carrying out a long term study into more than three hundred cases of meningitis . |
| 20 | I know that the National Audit Office has been carrying out a value-for-money study of NRA coast protection schemes . |
| 21 | And they 've been carrying out an exhaustive search for clues . |
| 22 | The Daughters of the American Revolution had been racking up a heavy rep in the past few months . |
| 23 | During the time that Ted and Jim were working on the engine , our chief researcher Bill Welbourne had been finding out a few details about the aircraft . |
| 24 | There were beds available for those with particular problems , such as those who had been injecting over a long period . |