Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their goodness has helped to make up the huge amount of goodness which has been accumulating for thousands of years and which we call the Created God . ’ |
| 2 | On 29 May anti-aircraft gunners submitted claims for a Ju88 probably destroyed , but it seems likely that they had in fact been firing at one of the Italian Fiats . |
| 3 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 4 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 5 | But that has been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 6 | It 's been happening for hundreds of years . |
| 7 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 8 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 9 | The human had been looking at one of those big sheets of paper … |
| 10 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
| 11 | THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market . |
| 12 | Unigram 's Tokyo bureau has been looking at some of the research work being developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co at its Tokyo Information and Communications Research Laboratory . |
| 13 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
| 15 | SUNDAY LIFE has been looking at some of the Irish people and places which get a mention in the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 16 | And are there people in class four at Stronsay school who 's been looking at some of the legends . |
| 17 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 18 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 19 | School had been tiring at first on transfer but she had soon got used to it : originally she had belonged to a number of clubs in the early day ( Thursday ) when all such activities take place , but now preferred to go home early . |
| 20 | The turn of the century marks the real change in Freud 's work , which had been developing from 1895 through his self-analysis . |
| 21 | The second stage of development will be considered after the first stage has been operating for two to three years . |
| 22 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 23 | She thought : I 've been living like this for years . |
| 24 | ‘ He may have also been searching for some of Hopkins 's papers ? ’ |
| 25 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 26 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 27 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 28 | Bundesbank officials have been fretting in public about rising bond yields and the weaker D-mark . |
| 29 | I was in a French class at school when I picked up a copy of the magazine , which had been lying on one of the tables . |
| 30 | So far we have established that major changes have been going on both in the UK economy as a whole and in its geography . |