Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home . |
| 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 | We have been seeing this from the development of the transistor to its becoming very widespread now , being replaced and developed in the form of integrated circuits so now we have the microprocessor chip . |
| 7 | Three year old son Andrew 's been eating more as Tom 's been ordered to lose weight . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Of claims that the relationship was one of passionate intimacy , the brigadier said : ‘ They have been suggesting that for some time . |
| 10 | But few Japanese beverage companies yet make drinks-cans with tab openers that remain attached to the cans — even though companies in the US and Canada have been manufacturing these for almost 15 years . |
| 11 | Malvern had been struggling most of the way on the only wet and windy day in an otherwise idyllic week . |
| 12 | She 'd been using these for years , ever since a practical demonstration by an art-school technician fired her to experiment with felting techniques . |
| 13 | We have been using these for only a number of weeks now , but the response has been very encouraging . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 17 | with his permission he thought it was funny he saw the funny side of it as well , but they had this big argument for five minutes cos he thought what he 'd done was right and he said Jesus , I 've been using this for three years for the training in the branch er it makes you wonder does n't it erm but if you 're gon na do practical applications you 've got ta give people relevant examples perhaps you start off basics with an example that is correct and then you start building on that do n't you then you start giving them the deviations and all this sort of stuff . |
| 18 | Moshe Gerstenhaber , chairman of Kall-Kwik Printing , has been using this as a promotional feature : ‘ If ever evidence was needed to prove the merits of franchising , the present difficult trading conditions have to be an example . ’ |
| 19 | Ms Harris ought to have been preaching this to her clients and taking note of it herself . |
| 20 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been keeping some by for a rainy day . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Understandable had I been writing this in August , but as it is still March it looks as if we are in for another drought this summer . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 26 | I mean can I just return to what Queenie Warley said about the rents , because basically what she said was the conservative view on council house rents was that yes they had to go up because the Government decreed they had to go up , that they would have put them up earlier so people would have been paying more for longer , and the phasing that they 're suggesting now what she did n't point out is that under the Conservative proposal people would finish up paying even higher rents than they will have to pay this year . |
| 27 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale . |
| 30 | 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 . |