Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adj] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not believe they do exist in stillwaters , for I am sure I would have found some evidence of the layer theory during the time I have been catching hundreds of stillwater bream . |
| 2 | ‘ Been seeing much of McCloy lately , Charlie ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ You do n't know who he is , but last night in the pub you asked Mr Hatton if he 'd been seeing much of McCloy lately . |
| 4 | ‘ You been seeing much of him recently ? ’ |
| 5 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 6 | The suddenness of the increased use of artillery in the third quarter of the fourteenth century is evidenced by the fact that when Gaston Fébus , vicomte of Béarn in the Pyrenees , had a network of fortifications constructed between 1365 and 1380 ( a period during which many castles were built in France ) he must have been building some of the last fortifications to take no account of artillery , which was very soon to compel important developments in the art of defence . |
| 7 | Malvern had been struggling most of the way on the only wet and windy day in an otherwise idyllic week . |
| 8 | Opioid use is the top category , and individuals in this group may also have been using any of the drugs in the other five categories . |
| 9 | Barbiturates are the second hierarchical category , and individuals in this group may have been using any of the drugs in the four categories below , but not opioids . |
| 10 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 11 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 12 | The Black-and-Ambers ' All Black date in three weeks has been looking more of a death sentence than an opportunity to breathe new live into an ailing club . |
| 13 | From the letters we have been receiving this year it appears that the Jehovah 's Witness from Greece Andreas Christodoulou has been passing some of the cards on to his colleagues who are also imprisoned Jehovah 's witnesses , who want to correspond with people in the U.K. Fortunately we have someone in the office who has been able to translate their letters . |
| 14 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 15 | For some years Pan Am had been selling some of its more profitable routes to rivals , in an effort to head off its mounting financial problems . |
| 16 | Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale . |
| 17 | Detectives hunting the rapist who attacked a young woman at a Nottingham f music festival at the weekend , have been interviewing some of the thousands of people who attended the event . |
| 18 | ‘ I gather you 've been interviewing some of the well-known faces down at TVL , Superintendent — like David Parkin and Jane Pargeter . |
| 19 | She 'd been investigating one of her peculiar groups and she said there was about to be a break-through . |
| 20 | We have been considering some of the ways in which the late Roman world inhabited by Christians was transformed in fact and in their imagination . |
| 21 | Canoeists and surfers have been riding one of the biggest Severn Bores that will be seen this year . |
| 22 | A flotilla of surfers and canoes has been riding one of the year 's biggest Severn Bores . |
| 23 | It was again as if she had been struck , her hands barely moving along the surface of the dresser she had been wiping clean of dust , her head going low , and when she finished she went to put the damp cloth carefully beside the sink , moving a simmering saucepan from the hotplate . |
| 24 | Had he been facing any of the big cat family , with their formidable armoury of fang , claw , power and speed , he would , for all his martial arts training , have been in with very little chance of survival , let alone victory . |
| 25 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 26 | No , she 's been getting enough of that . |
| 27 | As the Autumn fox hunting season gets underway , animal rights protestors have been holding one of the biggest demonstrations seen in the region . |
| 28 | My next call was to the company that had been holding some of my things in storage , just to warn them that I was coming round . |
| 29 | I 've been having one of my little do 's again with men on the doorstep . |
| 30 | You 've been having some of that , yeah . |