Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Convention has been binding upon the United Kingdom since 1953 . |
| 2 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 3 | During the sixteenth century the Portuguese had already been profiting from the gold being produced in West Africa and Japan . |
| 4 | It was considered that Sendero had been profiting from the rivalry between the Army and police in the region as to who should spearhead the US-backed campaign against drug trafficking . |
| 5 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 6 | Gill Hill , who has been seeing to the social side of things , organised an outing to the Crystal Palace Reunion for members from Hatfield , Hemel Hempstead , St. Albans and Harpenden , and another to Sadlers Wells Theatre for the ballet enthusiasts . |
| 7 | The , the , the best defence you could make of that , if you wanted to make a defence of it , would be that in the nineteen twenties and thirties as we 've been seeing in the lectures , I 'll be saying a bit more about that some psychoanalyse was , was developing . |
| 8 | So the young policeman ( who had been eating with the other young men in the passage outside the guestroom ) came in and read the transcript of the court judgement which had condemned the boy from Zliten . |
| 9 | The UK subsidiary has been eating into the parent company 's profits due to start up costs for its paging and mobile communications operations . |
| 10 | Standing there in shade , I observed the man and woman who had also been eating in the hotel emerge with their child . |
| 11 | Heaven knows what his victim had been eating before the battle , but it ended Seiguard 's reign of terror , permanently . |
| 12 | On the first day the West Indian bowlers had been sparing with the bouncer , for on such a pitch there was no need for it . |
| 13 | This may well have been due to the satisfaction he had been deriving from the composition of East Coker , though he made no mention to me of the new poem . |
| 14 | She 'd been waitressing in the dining-room for breakfast and lunch . |
| 15 | Shaking off the nostalgia that threatened to overwhelm her , she went to the window and threw it open , startling a tiny robin that had been resting on the sill . |
| 16 | Restart cyclamen corms that have been resting over the summer . |
| 17 | He and his men had been resting in the farm when they saw Sharpe 's ignominious flight . |
| 18 | Raynor had fetched wine from a corner cupboard , and was heating it with a thin iron rod which had been resting in the fire 's embers . |
| 19 | I did n't need a pee because I 'd been pissing on the Poles during the day , infecting them with my scent and power . |
| 20 | In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so . |
| 21 | The gallery ‘ gelbe MUSIK ’ has been catering for the specialists and the curious for ten years and celebrates its anniversary this spring . |
| 22 | Some colleges already undertake their own training of senior management staff and the Further Education Staff College at Coombe Lodge has for years been catering at the national level for the management needs of senior staff by providing residential conferences and workshops , most of which are over-subscribed . |
| 23 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 24 | Mr Lindsey said that , from 5 January , S&P were offering a variable Tessa paying an initial 7.5% , against the fixed rate version at 5.875% , which is slightly higher than the average that S&P , as a group , has been forecasting for the financial year beginning in April 1993 . |
| 25 | There is an habitual inability to see the logical wood for the emotional trees , as the less discerning will have been proving since the final whistle sounded at Celtic Park . |
| 26 | Some people in the liberal Free Democratic party , the junior partner in the government , had been toying with the idea of switching their support to the Social Democrats after December . |
| 27 | In fact , ever since the beginning of the year you seem to have been toying with the idea of making a major career move or change of residence and what transpires sometimes between October 29 and November 3 should enable you to rebuild and reshape your life — and the past with all its traumas and dramas will be placed in their true perspective , if not forgotten altogether . |
| 28 | Coincident with the attention to reduce noise on the German Speedwing , David Clarke of Windy Kites in the UK had been toying with the concept of a kite with a rigid trailing edge . |
| 29 | Before Henderson went to Russia Lloyd George himself had been toying with the idea that a Stockholm conference might help to keep Russia in the war . |
| 30 | But yes , abroad lies our final year of partnership , although I 've been toying with the idea of alighting upon a play by Shakespeare hitherto unknown , unseen and unenacted . ’ |