Example sentences of "been keeping [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already for nearly a century the syllabub had been keeping company with the trifle , and in due course the trifle came to reign in the syllabub 's stead ; and before long the party pudding of the English was not any more the fragile whip of cream contained in a little glass , concealing within its innocent white froth a powerful alcoholic punch , but a built-up confection of sponge fingers and ratafias soaked in wine and brandy , spread with jam , clothed in an egg-and-cream custard , topped with a syllabub and strewn with little coloured comfits . |
| 2 | Such a control group could also have been identified easily as all practices have been keeping records of their referrals for x ray examinations since the introduction of the new contract in April 1990 . |
| 3 | FOR almost a quarter of a century we have been keeping records of farm fatalities . |
| 4 | for the past ten years I have been keeping vigil in a nocturnal maze , and will continue to do so until daybreak . |
| 5 | Jahsaxa swept into the tasteful reception room she 'd been keeping Roirbak and Tammuz waiting in for over half an hour . |
| 6 | We were half expecting someone to arrive to investigate the deaths anyway , and we 'd been keeping Fedorov under observation for some time . |
| 7 | She had thought she had been keeping watch on the creeping grey-streaked matter , but it had moved suddenly , the embryonic fingers clutching the ground , pulling the oozing , mucousy river forward until it was bubbling over her feet . |
| 8 | ‘ Yet you must have been keeping watch on the house — why ? ’ |
| 9 | I 've been keeping watch for a week or two . |
| 10 | In the alley itself , Detective Gary Lomax had been keeping watch on the towering fire escape . |
| 11 | ‘ Mrs Choak , how long have you been keeping house for your brother ? ’ |
| 12 | John and Jenny have been keeping fish for nearly six years . |
| 13 | Old Fishfinger has been keeping fish for more than ninety years . |
| 14 | in all the years I have been keeping fish I have yet to suffer any form of disease or problems associated with feeding worms . |
| 15 | He claims to have been keeping fish for more than ninety years — and in some cases as little as ninety minutes . |
| 16 | When he had been keeping Desdemona company , awaiting Othello 's arrival from Venice , Iago had entertained them with impromptu ( and bitter ) rhymes , describing his imagination 's preliminary working ( the rhetorical process of inventio ) in these terms : Frieze is a coarse woollen cloth , birdlime a viscous stuff used to entangle : the destructive collocation of the two seems an apt metaphor for Iago 's ‘ invention ’ . |
| 17 | This is coming from a 34-year-old goat-mad , nut — but one who also understands the needs and wants of goats , as I have been keeping goats since I was 16 years old . |
| 18 | My only problem so far has been keeping track of who , exactly , in the Archives quotations is saying what . |
| 19 | She had n't been keeping track of the conversation , but he seemed to have pulled himself together over the past few minutes . |
| 20 | We 've been hunting them since our cave days , and for nine or ten thousand years , people as far afield as China , England and Polynesia have been keeping pigs to eat . |
| 21 | Their survival in office challenged efficient management of the duchy and may have entailed actual financial loss if they had been keeping revenue in their own hands . |
| 22 | Their survival in office challenged efficient management of the duchy and may have entailed actual financial loss if they had been keeping revenue in their own hands . |