Example sentences of "[vb past] been using [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |
| 2 | Their G P Felix Lusman had been using a faulty technique for the past five years . |
| 3 | Rauschning also began to realise that Gauleiter Forster had been using the economic reforms initiated by the Party in 1933 to line his own pocket . |
| 4 | John Rodwell , a specialist inspector from the Health and Safety Executive , said it appeared Mr Eaton had been using the burning torch to cut at the edge of the slot at one end of the pipe trying to open it and hot gases could have caused it to become dislodged and fall . |
| 5 | His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant . |
| 6 | He had been using an ingenious method . |