Example sentences of "been [v-ing] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've er I 've only just I 've only been coughing the last couple of days , but |
| 2 | A schoolboy has been recalling the last minutes of a ski-lift crash in which his step brother died . |
| 3 | aye , you see , that 's why so it meant that we have been going the last week in each month , er each second month |
| 4 | Stars of the film world have been marking the eightieth birthday of one of the giants of British cinema . |
| 5 | Perhaps we could have been celebrating the first golden anniversary of the 1,000 Reich boasted about by Hitler . |
| 6 | Mr James Bowen , the televisionist , has been celebrating the tenth anniversary of his ‘ television ’ contest , Bullseye , an adversarial entertainment based on the art of projectile throwing . |
| 7 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 8 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 9 | Buyers from all over the country have been attending the first of the annual auctions of holly and mistletoe . |
| 10 | Joh Commonwealth leaders have been attending the first day of their summit in Cyprus and protests by Greek Cypriots . |
| 11 | ’ Well John Major says I 'm a bit of a bastard , and I 've been spending the first part of this conference checking my birth certificate ’ . |
| 12 | Digital Equipment France SA and Paris 's showpiece impressionist museum , the converted railway station Musee d'Orsay , has been demonstrating the first piece of their collaboration on a worthy prototype application of multimedia technology , ‘ Learn to See . ’ |
| 13 | China has been observing the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the first opium war . |
| 14 | Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave . |
| 15 | Tam Dalyell has been reading the second Brandt report |
| 16 | I have been reading the last few pages and I think they are true and beautiful and just , recompense enough for the cold gloom of this untidy and lonely room . |
| 17 | ‘ No , I 've been freelancing the last couple of years . ’ |
| 18 | The management of Absent Ltd have been studying the first three years ' results of this newly formed company and are a little concerned with the figures produced . |
| 19 | It is in these past two weeks that Faldo has been putting the last pieces into place . |
| 20 | And this has been put in place alongside our position on the Gulf to complete our policy on the Middle East where we were condemning the hypocrisy of the western nations who have been supplying the Third World with arms and then going in there , fighting er just to maintain access to the oil . |
| 21 | Since October 1989 teachers have been delivering the first stages of a new national curriculum ; and in the early summer they will start testing ( sorry , assessing ) all seven-year-olds on the three core disciplines : mathematics , English and science . |