Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fred had been helping to rescue a family trapped in a cellar when a collapsing beam held him trapped by his left arm and leg for several hours , but he made a good recovery . |
| 2 | The ministers were supported by almost 52,000 local or lay preachers : of these totals the four leading denominations we have been surveying had a total of 6,409 ministers and 44,142 lay preachers in England . |
| 3 | Like my hon. Friend , I pay tribute to the efforts of Lord Carrington and others within the Community who have been endeavouring to obtain a ceasefire , and to the efforts made by Mr. Cyrus Vance . |
| 4 | Since 1977 Brown had been looking to buy a business in Scotland , where his family , roots and contacts are . |
| 5 | For some years the three-cornered parish with its three Mass centres had been looking to provide a parish centre with meeting and function rooms and to locate the priests ' house onsite . |
| 6 | Ever since being given a large stalk of them at the end of last summer , I have been wanting to make a design from them . |
| 7 | I 'd been wanting to break a board over my head for a long while . |
| 8 | Dounreay has been attempting to fill a gap in the international market which has appeared since the United States energy department decided in 1989 to ban the import of research reactor fuel pending an environmental assessment . |
| 9 | She had been going to take a walk around Mariánské Láznë , had n't she , so a three mile walk or so up to Vendelin Gajdusek 's home would n't be so difficult , would it ? |
| 10 | Jackie looked as if he might have been going to put a hand on Biff 's arm . |
| 11 | But it 's definitely a unique sound , with that percussive effect that ca n't be recreated on an electric bass — and I know that because I 've been getting sampled a lot recently … |
| 12 | Some had been finding work a strain and early retirement came as a relief . |
| 13 | I 've been hoping to catch a glimpse of you . ’ |
| 14 | One of the main themes of lesbian feminism of the last years has been trying to create a forum in which women can talk about sex , feel happy about sex , and consume sexually explicit material without guilt . ’ |
| 15 | He had drunk three glasses of home-made wine and had been trying to watch a film on television , but was unable to get interested in it . |
| 16 | IBM has been trying to negotiate a deal with the Open Software Foundation to buy outright re-distribution rights to an OSF/1 single server running under Mach 3.0 on PS/2s . |
| 17 | He 'd just been trying to squeeze a split-shot on to his line and it had popped out of his fingers . |
| 18 | She could smell the wood-smoke : someone had been trying to light a fire . |
| 19 | OVER THE past few years Britain and her European allies have been trying to adapt a system designed to catch Warsaw Pact spies to the task of hunting international terrorists . |
| 20 | And it 's particularly , I think , acute in the parish of Saint Mary 's and Saint John 's because the vicarage has been empty for two years and erm they built a new house , it was more it was cheaper to build a new house than to do the old one up , but there it 's been sat , empty for two years , and erm they 've been trying to find a buyer . |
| 21 | Zborowski had been trying to find a way of flattering the old man ever since the party arrived in Nice . |
| 22 | Branco Babic has been trying to find a manufacturer who 's interested in the possibilities of strawcrete for the past two years . |
| 23 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 24 | So if I may , I would like to negotiate to one or the other if if you will agree er to that , to try and get us a dance group , we 've been trying to get a dance group for years |
| 25 | ‘ I have been trying to get a video of the game for the past four or five years , but I have never had any success . ’ |
| 26 | talking to one of these receptionists today and she says erm she 's been trying to get a bit of erm , she 's split up with her husband , trying to get , a bit of extra money together , you know , to be , she 's got her own house like , buying her own house and all this and that she 's fell into a bloody modelling job and saying get yourself a passport and er on about sending her off to either the South of France or Kenya |
| 27 | I had been trying to get a membership list for the Cicero Club , but the only other name I could come up with was George Macready , a scarfaced iceman who had a profitable share of the City 's gambling and was best known for his sword-extruding walking stick . |
| 28 | In the UK , SAS has been trying to build a relationship with ICL plc for the last three or four years — with little success . |
| 29 | Libby and George had been trying to build a bridge with logs pulled from the wood and tied with twine from the farm to stop them rolling apart . |
| 30 | Here was a woman who had been trying to have a child ever since her marriage and yet she , Celia , had conceived not merely without any difficulty but on the one and only time she had not taken steps to prevent it . |