Example sentences of "now [pers pn] [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I had been hanging back , attempting to develop some strategy . |
| 2 | Well now I 've been clearing my mind on the role of the Chief Constable a and of the Police Committee . |
| 3 | Any of my old school friends in Wallingford that know me er well they 'll just never believe that I can run 26 miles because I do n't know if when you were at school , but when er when we used to have a cross-country run I was the one at the back and usually the P E instructor used to go round and whack us with a slipper , you know the slow ones and I was unfortunately one of those , but er now I 've been running with the Bicester Road Runners for what 2 years , er half , I 've done a few half marathons , nothing anywhere near 26 miles , I 've , my furthest run until yesterday was 16 miles , and yesterday , injured , with a bandage round my knee , I managed 18 miles , and I 'm pleased to say it 's still holding out and I 'm quietly confident that I 'm going to complete this , and like I say , if I can er well , just get the local businesses in Bicester interested and to support me , I say however small , just a , you know , if they , a penny a mile from just a few of the businesses in Bicester and , well , the Bible school could have , you know , a few pounds coming to them , which I 'm sure they 'd be , you know , greatly received . |
| 4 | back over with you , I 'll sort something out while I 've got some small change in me purse now I 've been shopping , I 'll sort it out |
| 5 | ‘ For some time now I have been thinking I should marry again . |
| 6 | FOR months now I have been trying to contain excitement at the thought of the compact disc . |
| 7 | Now I have been digressing and let me say quite clearly that I never knew the answer and I do not know it now , how the tremendously high level of morale was sustained , not just in the Pathfinders , but throughout the Command as a whole . |
| 8 | For some years now I have been researching an area where a certain event took place . |
| 9 | ‘ Now I have been working hard on my fitness and my ankle has improved . ’ |
| 10 | Now , now you 've been working in the area of AIDS for some time now , do you think that the message is getting through ? |
| 11 | So let's look at now you 've been doing I noticed today you 'd been doing differentiating products . |
| 12 | Now you 've been doing this for 25 years , that 's quite a long stint is n't it ? |
| 13 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
| 14 | For weeks now she 'd been recognizing him , her eyes following him round the room , and she tried to pull herself up in the cradle to see him better . |
| 15 | Now she 's been having an argument with the council and while she 's been arguing , you know she 's got a grievance , while she 's been arguing she takes her anger out on them and tells them what she thinks of them . |
| 16 | One might have hoped for silence from Diana Mosley but now she has been giving us the benefit of her experience on the subject of sexual politics : ‘ There are quite as many henpecked husbands in the world as there are battered wives , something feminists fail to notice . ’ |
| 17 | Now we 've been doing these or working with estate agents for twenty years . |
| 18 | Now now we 've been doing this for twenty years and I 've got a I 've got a feel for |
| 19 | Up to now we 've been covering one part of the neural networks . |
| 20 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 21 | For over a year now we 've been running a major initiative which is a systematic review of all our Sainsburys brand packaging to see where we can minimise the use of materials , but still allow the packaging to do the job of protecting the product and preserving it . |
| 22 | Whereas until now we have been considering changes that are forming an underclass , we now turn to examine a reform already enacted that will ensure that the underclass , and other vulnerable groups , continue to be the least privileged in old age . |
| 23 | Until now we have been reconstructing the system … |
| 24 | Now they 've been digging up the garden to make a channel for all electricity to go underground you see . |
| 25 | Until now he had been using one loaned to him by Christian . |
| 26 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 27 | For a year now he 's been trying to avoid packaged and drilled TV appearances , and enduring repetitive questions from bemused Europeans about sampling or acid house But he 's still managed to have some fun . |
| 28 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
| 29 | For 17 years now he has been hovering — camera at the ready — on the edge of parties , outside nightclubs or in restaurant doorways . |
| 30 | Now he has been talking of being ‘ more in control ’ . |