Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [coord] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the 16th century people have been puzzling and researching into the origins of names . |
| 2 | Our next priority like er , Labour says like a the different degrees is er the primary schools er many of which as we all know that we 've been struggling and to cope with inadequate budgets . |
| 3 | He 's been singing and playing at Pepe 's for the last two years , and lots of girls have tried to corner him . |
| 4 | Paul Traynor is a freelance journalist who has been walking and backpacking at home and abroad for over 25 years |
| 5 | Have you ever been walking or driving towards a destination and completely missed your turning because your mind was somewhere else ? |
| 6 | Pace that 's right you 've been cheating and looking on looking on the next page |
| 7 | The handkerchief that she 'd been twisting and untwisting at our first interview came out again , this time to her eyes . |
| 8 | ‘ Now do stop fussing around , ’ his wife said to him after he had been tossing and turning for about an hour . |
| 9 | Even though she had n't got to bed till the small hours , and had been feeling totally exhausted , she 'd been tossing and turning for what seemed like hours , utterly unable to sleep . |
| 10 | No doubt everyone in Mouncy Street knew what he had bought and had been looking or waiting for him to find out . |
| 11 | … once the CNAA even began to lend its support to this development , there literally was a kind of explosion , and plainly institutions had been looking and waiting for validation in this field … |
| 12 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
| 13 | Margaret St Clare has been living and working in the Zimbabwe countryside since January 1984 . |
| 14 | It could have been Hick holding together a Worcestershire innings — and that is exactly what England have been waiting and hoping for from the man who had completed 57 first-class hundreds before he was 25 . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been waiting and waiting for you to do that . |
| 16 | An elderly person has very delicate skin ; and if he or she has been lying or sitting in bed all day , they may develop pressure sores on the bony parts of the body — the base of the spine , the heels , the elbows or on the shoulders . |
| 17 | Currently supporting over 400 companies in the UK , FCS has been designing and putting into operation distribution systems for over 12 years . |
| 18 | Now , if you see a ploughed field today , it looks exactly as if a lot of pigs have been a-hoggin' and a-rootin' on it up . ’ |
| 19 | You can almost hear the excitement pouring out of the Master as one of his pupils gets the hang of something he 's been teaching and modelling for the past year . |
| 20 | Bicker was there , looking as tired as if he and not they had been riding and fighting in the past three days . |
| 21 | But yesterday McLean said it was Burgess who had been kicking and stamping on the victim . |
| 22 | It is this that we have been displaying and using in publications . |
| 23 | She had discarded the dirty wrapper she had been wearing and had on long silky black stockings and suspenders , a black peephole bra and crutchless panties . |
| 24 | The Brigadier set down a fat puppy that he had been holding and squelched towards the yard , driving a dozen pullets before him . |
| 25 | ‘ To heaven , of course , ’ said Dotty tartly , seizing an enormous wooden spoon and advancing upon an iron saucepan which had been rumbling and grumbling to itself throughout the conversation . |
| 26 | Er in most of them will er most people in Ireland will be in a pub at some stage of the day you know and it 's no unusual thing to er we 've got a recording studio in we live or I live rather and it 's not unusual to walk out the studio at er lunch time with some people you 'd been recording and go into the pub for a lunch and if you were n't very careful you could still be there that evening singing |
| 27 | talk to the teacher and each other about the books and stories they have been reading or listening to ; |
| 28 | A later post mortem showed the man had been drinking and died of hypothermia during the night when temperatures dropped to — 2 . |
| 29 | The villagers would think I had been drinking or wandering in my wits . ’ |
| 30 | It probably dates from after 1864 when Henry Pease turned his attention to the gardens of the mansion he had been enlarging and improving since 1846 . |