Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His chief backer is Roy Hattersley , whom he has been seeing quite a bit lately . |
| 2 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 3 | I understand from Valerie — I 've been seeing quite a lot of Valerie , as I think she 's indicated — that you were visiting your husband today . |
| 4 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |
| 5 | ‘ I say , ’ he said jovially , ‘ I see my mama 's been lashing out a bit . ’ |
| 6 | Over the past week you have been walking away a minimum of 300 calories a day during your walk , and your increased metabolic rate will have been burning up another few hundred calories when you have finished walking . |
| 7 | Frances had been walking along a pavement in Oxford when she was hit from behind . |
| 8 | I 've been rigging up a crush . |
| 9 | Pete was now beginning to wonder if she was feeling ill ; it was almost as if , for the latter part of the evening , she 'd only been keeping up a show of enjoying herself and now the strain of the charade was getting through to her . |
| 10 | Soon after , she recognized in a certain strain of feminist theory an approach to language which had much in common with the approach she herself had been developing over a number of years . |
| 11 | According to the US PC Week personality gossip column , Motorola Inc staffers have been passing around a model of an Intel Corp Pentium chip complete with a miniature Three Mile Island nuclear cooling tower . |
| 12 | Yes because previous to this year , erm the R C E has been picking up a proportion of their costs . |
| 13 | No , they was living together they 'd only been living there a fortnight ! |
| 14 | ‘ It did n't hurt too much because we had been training twice a week for over two months . |
| 15 | An explicit leaflet and poster for students sloganned ‘ take a course in safe sex ’ has been causing quite a furore . |
| 16 | We 've been averaging over a quarter of a million customers a week and an indicative of this is that recently in the last week , we 've just opened an additional three thousand car parking spaces to take our grand total up to twelve thousand spaces . |
| 17 | and er they used to come to me and say how much does this man owe now and if he 'd been paying quite a bit next time he came in the shop they was all round him trying to persuade him to buy |
| 18 | Although the consultants in London seemed to use their beds more effectively , 1912 patients ( an average of 39.1 per consultant ) had been waiting over a year for admission , which implies a lack of resources . |
| 19 | And from his Portakabin headquarters behind barbed wire round the back of the Crystal Palace National Sports Centre complex , ‘ actually a great improvement on the one room we had inside until this month ! ’ , he 's been lining up a string of new sponsorship deals . |
| 20 | ‘ The ferocity of the fire suggested it had been going quite a while before it was discovered . |
| 21 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |
| 22 | And then when you 're okay when you 've been riding round a bit you take them off . |
| 23 | She had been riding along a road with a little girl and Clare 's small pony Kizzy on a leading rein . |
| 24 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 25 | She 's been getting quite a lot of in our jokes over a couple ha ! |
| 26 | The outstanding performers were Scott Loftus , of Old Loughts , who scored four , and Old Felstedians Chris Maitland and Paul Surridge , who has been holding down a place with National League First Division outfit Canterbury since leaving school . |
| 27 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 28 | You 've been doing quite a bit with things that add up to ten have n't you and you 've been doing things like seven add three comes to ten and three add seven can you read my figures ? |
| 29 | Lately George has been doing quite a lot of libel , where there is also a jury to persuade and headlines to be had . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've been losing quite a lot of weight since I came to Hochhauser . |