Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |
| 2 | Say they just going for a walk , yeah , and you come across this , say this young kid has been climbing up the trees and hurt his leg , you 're the only person around , so you , you 've got to get help yeah , cos he 's losing a lot of blood , but you 've got to stop his blood same time as you 've got to get help , yeah , so what 's the priority , you just stay |
| 3 | Hundreds of kites have been brightening up the skies at a national kite festival . |
| 4 | ‘ As a consequence of these deaths , the very highest levels have been cranking up the troops to find who did this . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 've also been sorting out the dates for the let shoots . |
| 6 | ‘ The banks have been giving away the savings market to the building societies since the 1950s , ’ he says , ‘ but we have now proved large numbers of people will save with us . |
| 7 | She and Rufus and Adam himself had all been putting forward the names of people they knew who might want to be part of a commune , likely people of the right sort of age and the right sort of temperament . |
| 8 | Toshiba Corp has been showing off the robotics work it is engaged on at its research centre , where it has a number of projects that are or have grown out of government-sponsored projects : it is developing eyes 2mm to 3mm in diameter for a micromachine for use in inspecting pipes in nuclear power stations , and also a software-controlled self-mobile robot for use in space where not all astronauts can be expected to be robot experts . |
| 9 | R. Miller had decided to resign , because his father , who had in fact been carrying out the duties of Sergeant since his son had rejoined the army in 1941 , was now too old and wished to retire . |
| 10 | It had been watching apprehensively the activities of Prince Charles 's brother Henry , who , his father , the Old Pretender , had written to Louis XV a few weeks earlier , ‘ can not bear to remain in Rome while his brother is in Scotland ’ . |
| 11 | EURO Disney may be officially opening tomorrow , but tens of thousands of guests and Disney employees have been trying out the rides this week . |
| 12 | Of these , half had already been working alone the lines advocated , and although some of them enjoyed the reassurance of seeing classroom practice like their own being commended to others , several expressed the view that such an experience did not merit time away from their classes . |
| 13 | In the meantime , Pennethorne had been working out the details of his proposals for the Foreign Office . |
| 14 | Woolton took on to his staff a small group of civil servants who had been working out the implications of the Beveridge report , and also the Uthwatt report on land values . |
| 15 | He hung his medal in the shop , decided it would be nice to have a few more , and has been pounding out the miles since . |