Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . |
| 2 | That was the last , , I should have been market trader , been shouting out that voice and |
| 3 | had they been suing then that would of been met with a defence er counter claim settle and so on , erm and that would of been the answer that you ca n't enforce the claim under clause nine because it 's void , we did n't , we therefore ca n't , there 's no duty to keep the agent in funds , sue it to clause nine , it been a void clause |
| 4 | By 1951 the Art Galleries had been doing just that for 50 years . |
| 5 | All that has been going on since the dawn of civilisation is that man has , in effect , been doing just that . |
| 6 | SCO 's development partner DEC will have to soldier on alone , if it has not been doing just that for some time ( UX No 364 ) , if it intends to put OSF/1-for-ACE on its MIPS R4000 machines . |
| 7 | So much is made these days of the high-profile young dance companies who are ‘ trying to find their own vocabularies of movement ’ , that it is all too easy to forget those who have been doing just that , very quietly , for a long time . |
| 8 | She had known why Mr Evans had sent Hepzibah biscuits ; had known that he wanted her to spy , to keep her eyes open , and it seemed that without meaning to she had been doing just that ! |
| 9 | And for the last five years he had been doing just that . |
| 10 | She 'd been thinking just that for most of the long , aching , sleepless night . |
| 11 | The forces of evil must have been working smoothly that day because it so happened that the spot he chose was the position within yards of the epicentre of terror that had frightened the railwaymen so many years earlier . |