Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The party had been roping down a hanging glacier . |
| 2 | IT 'S hard enough for a woman to discover her husband 's been knocking off a naive girl in the typing pool . |
| 3 | The engineering unions have been seeking either a 35-hour week or a two-hour reduction . |
| 4 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 5 | Instantly , three athletic-looking youths sprang from a doorway where they 'd been idling just a short distance along the road . |
| 6 | Ten minutes before you might have been having quite a close conversation . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ They 've been meetin' here a few nights a week for the past year , have n't they ? ’ |
| 8 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 9 | A court 's been hearing how a four year old girl was found battered and half-starved after her parents locked her up in a bedroom for months on end . |
| 10 | An inquest 's been hearing how a fifteen year old public schoolboy died in an accident after taking his brother 's car . |
| 11 | Oxford Crown Court 's been hearing how a British Airways stewardess from Thame was threatened with death when she tried to end an affair with her boyfriend . |
| 12 | An inquest 's been hearing how a teenage joyrider died when he crashed a stolen car while trying to escape from police . |
| 13 | An inquest has been hearing how a six-month old baby girl died from a fractured skull after being dropped on her head at playschool . |
| 14 | A court 's been hearing how an off-duty nurse saved a security guard 's life after he 'd been shot in the chest during an armed robbery . |
| 15 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 16 | Till now , Ken Livingstone had been putting up a good show , joking about John Smith serving as his deputy and arguing for defence cuts to pay for benefits rather than tax increases . |
| 17 | The younger John claimed that Langton had been carrying on an adulterous relationship with his stepmother Joan . |
| 18 | At Warwick University ( England ) , doctors Steve Van Toller and George Dodd have been carrying out a great deal of research in recent years into the relationship between smell and emotion . |
| 19 | Meanwhile , forensic experts have been carrying out a thorough examination of the lonely cottage where Jonathan and Tania had met shortly before she disappeared . |
| 20 | Researchers at Gloucesters public health laboratories have been carrying out a long term study into more than three hundred cases of meningitis . |
| 21 | I know that the National Audit Office has been carrying out a value-for-money study of NRA coast protection schemes . |
| 22 | And they 've been carrying out an exhaustive search for clues . |
| 23 | The Daughters of the American Revolution had been racking up a heavy rep in the past few months . |
| 24 | During the time that Ted and Jim were working on the engine , our chief researcher Bill Welbourne had been finding out a few details about the aircraft . |
| 25 | There were beds available for those with particular problems , such as those who had been injecting over a long period . |