Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Apart from her anxiety over Jennifer 's meeting David again , Rachel had been looking forward to Family Day , but when she arrived for work the next morning the preparations were the furthest thing from her mind . |
| 3 | I 've really been looking forward to flying — it will be my first time on a plane . ’ |
| 4 | You 're sixty-one and have been looking forward to retirement . |
| 5 | However , in insisting on a two-year probation period for new assemblers , the Polish government runs the risk that firms such as Wyse Technology Inc , which have been looking seriously at manufacturing in the country , may find short-term sales opportunities unattractive . |
| 6 | Yes , the hindquarter double-muscled trait is important and is the breed 's main attribute , but we 've been looking too for stock with good overall conformation , with loin and fleshing that we feel is vital to any successful terminal sire breed . |
| 7 | James Beggs , has been lobbying hard for money to build a fifth Shuttle-orbiter , and the academy 's assessment could help loosen the purse strings at the white House . |
| 8 | The main market for Japan 's semiconductor makers — the American computer industry — has been sinking deeper into slump since August 1990 . |
| 9 | The authorities claimed that they had been living illegally on land which had been allocated to others , in Khartoum suburbs such as Karmuta where large numbers of mud-brick houses had reportedly now been vacated and then destroyed by bulldozers . |
| 10 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
| 11 | conscious … that their peoples have been living together in peace since 1945 ; |
| 12 | Reared on The Eagles and James Taylor among others , the baby-boomers have been turning instead to country . |
| 13 | Sir , Over the past few years the tide of public opinion has been turning strongly against smoking , but this tide of public opinion was stemmed somewhat , albeit inadvertently , by the valiant efforts by tobacco companies . |
| 14 | Bouguereau has not been selling well at auction in recent years , and it is possible that the recent exhibition at Borghi & Co. in New York has stimulated a revival of interest in his work . |
| 15 | If things have n't been going well at work and success seems to be passing you by talk to colleague and see what they think of your prospects . |
| 16 | As it is the hay and silage season , we had been going non-stop since dawn . |
| 17 | Michael Codron had been going there as part of the Kenneth Williams set since the time he worked for the Jack Hylton organization . |
| 18 | Men have been getting away with murder for years . |
| 19 | For a long time local authorities have been getting away with murder — they 're not keeping maps up-to-date and have low maintenance budgets for rights of way . |
| 20 | The author , investigative journalist David Leigh , has had access to unpublished trial records and secret Whitehall files , and says that ‘ Ministers have been getting away with murder . |
| 21 | She has been moving well in home gallops and defends her record in the Gainsborough Stud Fred Darling Stakes . |
| 22 | Since she had been drifting luxuriously into sleep , it took a second for the voice to register , but when it did , it acted like a bucket of ice-cold water flung over her sun-warmed limbs , and she jack-knifed upright , her eyes wide with shock . |
| 23 | Certainly , the amount of land held by the nobility continued to decline after 1905 , as it had been doing ever since Emancipation . |
| 24 | " But , hell , they 've been navigating safely to Aru for centuries . " |
| 25 | Microsoft wants Sun to pay a licence for WABI , specifically $50 a copy , and has been saying so to Sun since at least December . |
| 26 | Microsoft wants Sun to pay a licence for WABI , specifically $50 a copy , and has been saying so to Sun since at least December . |
| 27 | Somebody calculated that if the surface of the earth was covered with a layer of protein molecules a metre thick , right over the whole surface of the earth erm each one , each protein different from every other one , and let us suppose furthermore that each of these proteins had been changing once as second , uniquely , into some different kind ever since the formation of the earth , we would still have tried out only quite a small fraction of the available possible proteins a hundred amino acids long . |
| 28 | I 'VE BEEN PLAYING AWAY FROM HOME |
| 29 | ‘ It 's simply that while we 've been playing well in possession , we have n't been doing the job when the opposition have had the ball . |
| 30 | Here she was , imagining that the last half-hour had been a sort of truce — telling Marc all those things about her life on the stage , all those silly , funny , self-mocking stories of disaster and mayhem that were part of the business , and he 'd been sitting there in judgement all that time , working out how much Peter might or might not have paid her for playing the part of his fiancée … |