Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 2 | Lionel who had been catching up on news from Yorkshire , said , ‘ My brother tells me Hawksworth at the Hall has netted an enormous fish . |
| 3 | The expediter — ‘ Joy ’ — was the envoy of a client of mine : the Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines ( CDCP ) , a local company my bank had been courting unsuccessfully for years . |
| 4 | Production had been building up at Courtaulds ' $85 million plant near Mobile , Alabama , since June , 1992 . |
| 5 | Something approaching a personal crisis had been building up since Nietzsche 's return from the unforgettable distress of war . |
| 6 | It had been raining heavily since dawn , water sluicing the gutters of the courtyard , creating rainbows of the patches of oil on the tarmac of the consultants ' car park . |
| 7 | It 's Mackeson Gold Cup Day , it 's been raining heavily at Cheltenham , there 's a non-runner in the big race details coming up . |
| 8 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 9 | Several of the planks , including those that had given way under Harry 's weight , had without that beam 's support simply been hanging out in space , resting like a seesaw over the previous beam but otherwise supported only by the tight fit of each plank against the next . |
| 10 | Staff from Aberdeen were among 63 representatives of 35 libraries who attended a series of VISCOUNT demonstrations organised by the Library 's Lending Services during November and December , and were so impressed by what they saw that they decided to join the system , which they have been using successfully since January . |
| 11 | The rest of the breakfasters , who had been gazing on with fascination , returned also to their newspapers , with the exception of Fishbane , on whom Gooseneck now turned . |
| 12 | It 's just that Stephen 's been rooting about in boxes . |
| 13 | He 's been rattling on about people bemoaning the passing of Trevino and Palmer , saying there are no characters left , merely machine-like robots who take five minutes to select a club , 10 minutes to line up a putt , and five-and-a-half hours to complete a round . |
| 14 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 15 | His South African challenger 's been training in London , Bruno' been limbering up in Leicestershire . |
| 16 | Although previously I had been walking only on weekends , I was now walking up to five times a week for half an hour at a time . |
| 17 | They 've been knocking around since Christmas . |
| 18 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 19 | It serves 38 million vending cups a year , most of which have been ending up in bins . |
| 20 | We 've been cultivating both for centuries . |
| 21 | I have been banging on about South German wheat beers for years , and I am delighted to see that they are becoming more easily available in Britain . |
| 22 | ‘ By the look of what 's on the meter some sucker 's been driving around at ground level . |
| 23 | They had been driving northwards from Copenhagen for half an hour along the beach road when Rune posed the question . |
| 24 | To confirm his fears , when we had been driving out of Tangier docks late at night , having only just arrived on African soil , a group of men had tried to stop us . |
| 25 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 26 | She and Jake had been driving back to Lomond View after accompanying Kirsty back to school when Jake had swivelled round in his seat to inform her , |
| 27 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 28 | The horse fair has been happening here for decades and it used to be a time of celebration when the market square at Stow was filled by a Fun fair aswell , but after a flare up last year the Fair 's owners wo n't be coming back . |
| 29 | The Sunday paper 's attack fed into an older battle , that between radical theatre , cinema , publishing , and the state which had been smouldering ever since Lady Chatterley six years before . |
| 30 | With all of its efforts to establish itself in the Unix marketplace , DEC has sometimes been in danger of convincing its own VMS customers that the traditional VAX lines have not been keeping up with Unix in the price/performance race . |