Example sentences of "been [v-ing] a [noun sg] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you have been using a code driven system then it 's likely that you can drive alternative systems directly ; GO Graphics ' Deskset talks to Compugraphic systems , for example . |
| 2 | He may have been looking a bit weary , but he was doing a splendid linking job and Whitton found it hard fill the gap . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's not just what you wrote that hurts us , Lizzy , it 's the way you 've been living a lie all this time . ’ |
| 4 | Like Terry Venables calling for a pre-match arsenic , the old trouper knows that the best way to disarm your critics is to make ‘ em laugh , but the joke has been wearing a bit thin , and it was with some relief that he swopped his sheepish smile for a satisfied one . |
| 5 | Hopeless with that on because of course , he 's been wearing a pullover all the time and initially he had it clipped on the right hand side of his belts and of course , with that switch where is it ? |
| 6 | A standard rumour was that someone the story-teller knew personally had been hitching a lift one dark night . |
| 7 | It was ours though , and Mrs Logue 's parlour had been getting a bit rough lately . |
| 8 | Something I have been doing a lot these last days . |
| 9 | ‘ As far as actually ‘ working out ’ is concerned , I 've been doing a lot this year , but not since rehearsals began because it 's just been so crazed . |
| 10 | ‘ She had been making a noise last season and was Hobdayed during the winter . |
| 11 | I 've been putting a bit more glue on it . |
| 12 | However , Nigel had not wished to leave his family and friends for the loneliness of the big city , even though he would have been earning a lot more money . |
| 13 | We studied 20 children with coeliac disease who had been following a gluten free diet for mean ( SD ) 14 ( 3 ) months . |
| 14 | He had been feeling a bit better for the last few days : He had repaired the fence between the Britches and Ron Paget 's yard , filled two black plastic sacks with rubbish and had embarked on a vigorous assault upon dead and decaying trees . |