Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 2 | You 've just been seeing too many films . |
| 3 | When they have been eating out all the time they have been away , and are longing for an evening at home , the suggestion does not go down well . |
| 4 | During the 20th century the average person in Western society has been eating too much fat and too little fibre . |
| 5 | That 's probably the trouble if you 've been eating too much . |
| 6 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 7 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 8 | Although some have done this display before , the tension 's been building up all week . |
| 9 | Tension 's been building up all week . |
| 10 | Clerk of the course Nick Lees said : ‘ It has been raining heavily all day and we had no option but to abandon the meeting . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Quite frankly , Elinor- and in confidence — STG has been handling too many criminal cases for my liking . |
| 12 | ‘ In the concreted yard at the back of the flats at Water Eaton Road stood a light-weight , rubber-wheeled , aluminium wheelbarrow which one of the maintenance men had been using earlier that day . |
| 13 | So the pair of them have probably been mulling over all the old grievances — in their minds , if not openly . ’ |
| 14 | We realised we 'd been depending too much on verbal instructions so we concentrated on producing written safety procedures , including training and planning . |
| 15 | The old debt has been nagging away these last 16 years , and Moore made a point last week of reminding Bobby Robson of the hostile reception England can expect on Wednesday . |
| 16 | ‘ We 've been walking around all night . |
| 17 | Who 's been tearing up all the newspaper that the wet wellies were on ? |
| 18 | Barry Moxton had been lurking there all the time , just below the surface of his consciousness , waiting to spring out at him . |
| 19 | But yesterday , as she nursed the baby she had been praying so many years for , she said : ‘ I never gave up hope . ’ |
| 20 | By his early teens , he had been driving just such a cart ; clopping down the Dorset lanes , in the early summer sun … |
| 21 | Global competition in the automobile industry has been driving out many of the smaller firms . |
| 22 | Developed from the Laser 28 , the RF290 has been notching up some impressive results , winning at least three class 1sts in the Hamble Winter Series . |
| 23 | The report said for over 10 years , IBM has been booking immediately all the revenues from some long-term computer leases , getting a residual value guarantee from Merrill Lynch & Co to bring the total of the lease payments plus the residual value up to the 90% of the sale price that accountants regard as prudent for a sales-type lease . |
| 24 | And we 've been campaigning for years to try and get these laws changed , no-one seems to have been listening very much and that 's why we 've adopted this more upfront direct challenge to the law . |
| 25 | Over on the brown stuff , Andy Barker has been seeking out those remaining gems . |
| 26 | But she 'd been smoking too much , as well . |
| 27 | I 'll been looking up these things . |
| 28 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 29 | We 've been prowling around all day on a level with earthworms and rusty , broken down appliances , pressing our ears against the hot wooden trapdoor to the cellar and hearing the silence of ghosts . |
| 30 | The double volume , Ogwen & Carneddau , will hopefully be in the shops by Easter ; Llanberis , at the time of writing , has much of the text complete , thanks to Iwan Arfon Jones , and Paul Williams has been rounding up all the loose ends . |