Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the meantime he had been pursuing a policy of rationalizing the trade by buying patent and grain distillery businesses that were in difficulty , collaborating closely with the large blending houses . |
| 2 | Since the meeting I have been pursuing the proposal for moving the Clerk Street bus stops and also examining the complaints about the Scotmid stops . |
| 3 | The University has been pursuing the details of its IT strategy and in 1992–3 , following extensive consultation , it has settled on the framework for the technical elements of this , the principle of which is distributed computing using a client-server model . |
| 4 | At the time of his controversial dismissal from Manchester United , the News Of The World revealed that a team of private detectives , hired by a group of businessmen closely linked to some of the club 's directors , had been pursuing The Doc for nearly two years . |
| 5 | They 've been charting the progress of Rob Coles throughout the British Steel challenge … possibly the toughest seafaring test he 'll ever experience . |
| 6 | ‘ They 'd been raiding the school at the end of Dwyer Street . ’ |
| 7 | Henry , who comes from Litherland and is secretary of Repcon Strand A.C. , has been catching the bream on single yellow maggots and the tench on caster . |
| 8 | After the discovery that the Tramways Department had effectively been subsidising the Illuminations for years , a completely new Illuminations Department was set up in 1936 under Freddie Field . |
| 9 | The first thing I learnt more or less was thkarni which means — well she said it meant — this white stork we 've been seeing a lot of . |
| 10 | The girl had been seeing a lot of another young man , an estate agent called Jose , and that association continued after the marriage — long after ! |
| 11 | By sending permanent representatives to the courts of Europe the Ottomans would have been accepting a kind of regular and established contact with the west which denied their most deeply held assumptions , which implied an at least partial renunciation of the inherent superiority to the Christian world which they claimed , and which for a surprisingly long time , even after the balance of military strength had turned decisively against them , seemed to almost all of them unnecessary and to promise no real advantage . |
| 12 | Nor had she ever come home footsore , as she surely must had she been quartering the city in the fashion she claimed . |
| 13 | Somebody 's been eating a lot of those have n't they ? |
| 14 | I said somebody 's been eating a lot of those . |
| 15 | Over the past few weeks , Apple has been courting the press with sneak previews of Lisa on the condition that the participants undertook not to breath a word of what they had seen until the machine was officially announced on 20 January ( simultaneously around the world ) . |
| 16 | In the north several million Iraqi Kurds have been building the sinews of an independent homeland , most but not all of which is protected by another no-fly zone . |
| 17 | While state-owned and foreign businesses have held the centre of the stage for three decades , tens of thousands of informal sector artisans have been producing a range of goods for use in households , agriculture , transport and construction . |
| 18 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 19 | For a number of years they have been producing the yachts in their range in both standard and Master versions , the latter being more luxuriously appointed and intended for private ownership . |
| 20 | She had been fastening the buttons at the shoulder of Thomas 's elephant-patterned pyjamas , but all sense of co-ordination suddenly seemed to vanish and her fingers fumbled in vain . |
| 21 | One of the largest Polish communities in Britain has been enjoying a style of dancing seldom seen outside its homeland . |
| 22 | As for Master Gates , he came home a war hero and has been enjoying the fruits of his fame ever since . ’ |
| 23 | Speaking at the service in St Nicholas 's Church , Sunderland , Tyne and Wear , he said Sgt Forth , 34 , was killed on a night when he could have been enjoying the festivities at a friend 's wedding . |
| 24 | She had been enjoying the evening at the Ritzy club in Streatham , south-west London . |
| 25 | You 've been helping the Vatican in some mysterious business or other , have n't you ? ’ |
| 26 | I could say that I 've been helping the police with their inquiries . |
| 27 | An informal group formed this week has been mobilising the support of cricket clubs throughout the island to stay away from the game . |
| 28 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 29 | If any one of us had been touching a wall above ground we 'd have been part of the bloody architecture by now . ’ |
| 30 | For example , symptom diaries that have been completed in blocks of different coloured ink arouse a suspicion that the patient may have been completing the diary in blocks of days rather than daily . |