Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 2 | Lionel who had been catching up on news from Yorkshire , said , ‘ My brother tells me Hawksworth at the Hall has netted an enormous fish . |
| 3 | Production had been building up at Courtaulds ' $85 million plant near Mobile , Alabama , since June , 1992 . |
| 4 | Something approaching a personal crisis had been building up since Nietzsche 's return from the unforgettable distress of war . |
| 5 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 6 | Several of the planks , including those that had given way under Harry 's weight , had without that beam 's support simply been hanging out in space , resting like a seesaw over the previous beam but otherwise supported only by the tight fit of each plank against the next . |
| 7 | The rest of the breakfasters , who had been gazing on with fascination , returned also to their newspapers , with the exception of Fishbane , on whom Gooseneck now turned . |
| 8 | It 's just that Stephen 's been rooting about in boxes . |
| 9 | He 's been rattling on about people bemoaning the passing of Trevino and Palmer , saying there are no characters left , merely machine-like robots who take five minutes to select a club , 10 minutes to line up a putt , and five-and-a-half hours to complete a round . |
| 10 | There 's a racket goin' on , Aggie ; but you know as well as me it 's been goin' on for years . |
| 11 | His South African challenger 's been training in London , Bruno' been limbering up in Leicestershire . |
| 12 | They 've been knocking around since Christmas . |
| 13 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 14 | It serves 38 million vending cups a year , most of which have been ending up in bins . |
| 15 | I have been banging on about South German wheat beers for years , and I am delighted to see that they are becoming more easily available in Britain . |
| 16 | ‘ By the look of what 's on the meter some sucker 's been driving around at ground level . |
| 17 | To confirm his fears , when we had been driving out of Tangier docks late at night , having only just arrived on African soil , a group of men had tried to stop us . |
| 18 | He cut into her thoughts with a question about the ball and she repeated her earlier assurance that she 'd had a successful evening , adding that in all conscience she ought to have been driving back to London to work on some of the stories . |
| 19 | She and Jake had been driving back to Lomond View after accompanying Kirsty back to school when Jake had swivelled round in his seat to inform her , |
| 20 | With all of its efforts to establish itself in the Unix marketplace , DEC has sometimes been in danger of convincing its own VMS customers that the traditional VAX lines have not been keeping up with Unix in the price/performance race . |
| 21 | come home from work she said I 've been looking round in Boots and that for you , she said er I 've decided , she said I was gon na get you a gift voucher . |
| 22 | For the province 's future Olympic hopefuls have been brushing up on skills both on and off the sports fields . |
| 23 | ‘ Someone 's been splashing out at Woolworths , ’ said O'Hara , tapping with his hook at the pearls . |
| 24 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 25 | In 1940 U.556 had been fitting out at Hamburg at the same quay as the Bismarck and in return for borrowing Bismarck 's band for her commissioning ceremony , Wohlfarth , who was a skilled cartoonist , prepared a document , charred at the edges to show its age , whereby U.556 would ‘ adopt ’ Bismarck ( as towns in Germany and England then were adopting warships ) and protect her from harm in all the oceans , seas , lakes , ponds , puddles of the world . |
| 26 | He would have been acting out of character and trying on something his party had wearied of . |
| 27 | But it 's n I still ca n't reconcile why it was kept secret cos surely this is a fundamental point cos it is because they ca n't openly declare that how that they are moving away from the United Front , but if they 're trying to show that they 're moving in line with the peasants ' demands surely they want to show that to the peasants an so there , there 's it 's more that how th the Party cadres have been acting out of step rather than them making it clear to the peasants . |
| 28 | Remember the the boat 's been filling with water , they 've been bailing out in desperation , after they 'd done everything that they can do they then turn round and said , Lord , do n't you care we 're gon na drown ? |
| 29 | The last time he had seen him the Trollslayer had been wandering off to booze with his fellow outcast Dwarfs . |
| 30 | If you want to study the most refined version of clothes-talk , just look at all the elegant women who have been turning up in court recently . |