Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His chief backer is Roy Hattersley , whom he has been seeing quite a bit lately . |
| 2 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 3 | I understand from Valerie — I 've been seeing quite a lot of Valerie , as I think she 's indicated — that you were visiting your husband today . |
| 4 | They 'd pretty well packed their bags anyway , she said , it 's been raining there every day . ’ |
| 5 | Over the past week you have been walking away a minimum of 300 calories a day during your walk , and your increased metabolic rate will have been burning up another few hundred calories when you have finished walking . |
| 6 | Shimon Samuels , meanwhile , has been lobbying both the German and French governments , questioning their lack of endeavour in hunting down suspects . |
| 7 | No , they was living together they 'd only been living there a fortnight ! |
| 8 | ‘ It did n't hurt too much because we had been training twice a week for over two months . |
| 9 | An explicit leaflet and poster for students sloganned ‘ take a course in safe sex ’ has been causing quite a furore . |
| 10 | We 've been averaging over a quarter of a million customers a week and an indicative of this is that recently in the last week , we 've just opened an additional three thousand car parking spaces to take our grand total up to twelve thousand spaces . |
| 11 | and er they used to come to me and say how much does this man owe now and if he 'd been paying quite a bit next time he came in the shop they was all round him trying to persuade him to buy |
| 12 | Although the consultants in London seemed to use their beds more effectively , 1912 patients ( an average of 39.1 per consultant ) had been waiting over a year for admission , which implies a lack of resources . |
| 13 | So now he is my enemy , I have touched his pride , and he has been waiting only the moment to humiliate me … ’ |
| 14 | While Charles had been withdrawing northward the sloop Prince Charles , formerly , until taken as a prize , His Majesty 's Ship Hazard , had been on its way to him from France with some Irish troops , arms and , most important of all , £13,600 in gold . |
| 15 | From the far edge of the terrace I could see down to where I had been lying only an hour or two before . |
| 16 | ‘ The ferocity of the fire suggested it had been going quite a while before it was discovered . |
| 17 | Despite excellent character-witnesses , among them Elizabeth , who delivered an impassioned plea on her maid 's behalf , Justine stood condemned by one piece of circumstantial evidence : a locket containing a picture of her late mistress had been found in her belongings — a locket which the child William had been wearing only the day before the murder . |
| 18 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 19 | She 's been getting quite a lot of in our jokes over a couple ha ! |
| 20 | You 've been doing quite a bit with things that add up to ten have n't you and you 've been doing things like seven add three comes to ten and three add seven can you read my figures ? |
| 21 | Lately George has been doing quite a lot of libel , where there is also a jury to persuade and headlines to be had . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been losing quite a lot of weight since I came to Hochhauser . |
| 23 | I understand you 've been socializing quite a lot with the Italians over the last twenty four hours or so . |
| 24 | Well , I 've been hearing quite a lot about timeshare recently . |
| 25 | It 's his first film for five years and he told me it 's been creating quite a stir , because of its subject matter . |
| 26 | We did have an argument that afternoon ; he came on to the set clearly hungover — he had been drinking heavily the day before , disrupting things , disturbing the atmosphere . |
| 27 | The court was told he had used cocaine and heroin and he also admitted that in addition to a cocktail of drugs he had been drinking heavily the evening before the incident . |
| 28 | If you think that Toronto vertical market turnkey systems integrator Geac Computer Corp has been making rather a lot of acquisitions of late , well you ai n't seen nothing yet . |
| 29 | The girls who play Christina and Caroline in Neighbours have been putting together an album . |
| 30 | It was hard to believe that this generously smiling woman was the same predatory creature she 'd been watching just a moment ago — but the image she had seen was seared in her brain , and suddenly she knew there was no way in the world that she could allow this woman to be a mother to Kirsty . |