Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 2 | In his search he was aided by a number of new roads which the Mexican government has been building in this area to open up new regions to cultivation . |
| 3 | If the course of action that I am suggesting and ind which is indeed consistent with the course of action I have been suggesting throughout this enquiry is to work , then I need I would suggest tomorrow is probably the absolute latest for me to get anything from you , and to give the Councils any opportunity whatsoever to make any reply to them . |
| 4 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 5 | We can now state the central result of applying the rational expectations hypothesis to the aggregate demand — aggregate supply model that we have been using in this chapter . |
| 6 | March 17th is my traditional early chiffchaff date and although a journey south to Poole and a short time near possible sites on that day , yielded no hearing of the bird , one has been singing in this garden today . |
| 7 | That 's the level at which you would have been walking along this alleyway in nineteen ninety and about fourteen sixty . |
| 8 | Yeah , actually se , I sa , actually she said oh what , have you been walking into this time ? |
| 9 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 10 | Somebody has been interfering with this case internally . ’ |
| 11 | I hope everybody understands er , Alton Towers is launching its new things today , Chessington opened this weekend , so we have n't been trading until this weekend in effect in our parks business . |
| 12 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 13 | But something about your comments worries me a great deal , and that 's the fact that many women tutors , you say , have been looking at this issue , but they have n't looked at the major part of the issue , which is from the students ' perspectives and the problem that goes on between students . |
| 14 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |
| 15 | We 've been looking for this car as part of a murder investigation . |
| 16 | The result was an urban sociology which came very close to that which we have been developing in this book . |
| 17 | Been operating since this morning . |
| 18 | " Lord , I feel as if I 've been living with this case for ever ! " |
| 19 | She 's been living with this guy for months , by all accounts , so she 's probably immune to his germs by now . |
| 20 | How long have you been living at this address ? |
| 21 | This country has a long tradition of accepting genuine political refugees , but there is no doubt that the fact that three quarters of all applications are made by people who have been living in this country for weeks , months and , in some cases , years , is tantamount to an abuse of the system . |
| 22 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 23 | — We 've been living in this flat over a year Duncan . |
| 24 | For what it is worth , I have been saving in this way for years myself . |
| 25 | And he 's been wrestling with this alsatian |
| 26 | Ah 'm worn to a frazzle fighting off the toffs that have been swarming round this door since she was nine and three quarters . |
| 27 | In fact the whole of SE Asia has been booming over this period . |
| 28 | I feel as if I have been wandering through this forest for an eternity , and it is some days since I have found anything to eat . |
| 29 | Lately , I 've been wondering about this theory . |
| 30 | Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece . |