Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The same old crowd , but he 'd been seeing much less of them . |
| 2 | What had her eyes been seeing all this time ? |
| 3 | I 've been seeing these funny yellow ones ! |
| 4 | Meanwhile Mick is reported to have been seeing glamorous 21-year-old Aussie model Peta Wilson in Los Angeles . |
| 5 | Yeah , well even Laura like she eats salad at school like you know , but erm , she 's got erm , what did we have the other night cos we 'd been eating semi semi Mediterranean food this week |
| 6 | Well it , according to what I read before , they say they staple the stomach down to the size of er , of a tea spoon , so presumably she , her stomach must only receive , she must of been eating twenty four hours a day , you know , to keep they , she did n't lose any weight , the other girl did , but er |
| 7 | Erm again mean time that the Americans er the Americans much more production , they 've been producing all this time anyway cos they 've got high productivity , need it for two hundred million people . |
| 8 | M. Grassa has been producing outstanding white wine from the local grape varieties for many years . |
| 9 | The Midlands ' shop stewards knew it was only a question of time before the strike affected supplies to their own plants and those in the South , jeopardising the recovery plan which had been producing such vast improvements in performance . |
| 10 | The Yorkshire outfit have been producing some good results in their own division , and have lost only one of their eight league games so far , but we saw the big gulf in scoring power between some of the first and lower division clubs in the county competitions and York look to be facing something of a Mission Impossible . |
| 11 | Trials of state-of-the-art technology to monitor air quality in and around Wilton have been producing some interesting data . |
| 12 | But the market seems to have been generating some big increases for certain quite junior City people — notably in foreign exchange and swaps . |
| 13 | So like I even said that to the coppers today I said he 's been handling seventeen hundred pounds near enough near as damn it |
| 14 | Q I have been using extra red Henna on my hair for almost two years while I 've been growing my hair . |
| 15 | The mujahedin have been using US-supplied Chinese and Egyptian-made rockets in recent years to shell Kabul , but there has been no previous evidence of Western rockets being given to the guerrillas . |
| 16 | The party has been using some bright capitalist techniques to get itself in election-fighting mettle . |
| 17 | As he followed her from the room , he said , ‘ Has he been using any new chemicals ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You told me you had n't been using any different chemicals , Bob . ’ |
| 19 | Er er what should we what have we been u have we been using any particular sort of of form of words Jane ? |
| 20 | But so far , that 's why I chitted at him this morning about that coal because I 've been using this all morning , I 've not been lighting fire till between one and three o'clock . |
| 21 | William IV died shortly afterwards and it has been written that , a search being instituted , it was found that that bluff and breezy monarch had been using this unique ancient artifact as a shaving mug ! |
| 22 | By now the coroner should have been singing some lewd song at the top of his voice , bellowing abuse at the landlord , or urging Athelstan to come back to his house in Cheapside . |
| 23 | necessarily calling for radicalization cos it was forced erm I , I , it appeared to me that how that the Communist Party would have continued a moderate policy had the peasants not erm been demanding further radical change and in actual fact the tone of the document 's quite moderate and it 's protecting middle peasants , rich peasants , even some landlords who had remained loyal to the Party so it 's not at all radical but erm it 's just it 's radical in the sense that how that it wants to get rid of feudalism , but it 's not getting rid of landlords per se as a class . |
| 24 | Paradoxically , however , although over the years you may have been contributing many thousands of pounds to the Inland Revenue , in practice you may have had very little direct contact with the tax system . |
| 25 | The world price for tin is high and so companies have been opening new larger mines in Cornwall . |
| 26 | Over recent years , environmental concerns have been driving genuine environmental improvements across a wide range of processes and products . |
| 27 | Jake had been hurling these same insults at her now for years , and by now she ought to be totally immune to them . |
| 28 | Although we have been seeking similar promotional competitions with northern theatres [ and we have n't given up yet ] we do not have the facilities to run a comprehensive programme of regional competitions . |
| 29 | And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going . |
| 30 | The offer was accepted with alacrity and Harry has been writing these little vignettes for the paper ever since . |