Example sentences of "been [v-ing] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | if you were born in the Mediterranean you would of been eating that stuff anyway and you 'd never have , think about it |
| 2 | During the last decade evidence has been accumulating that fluid secretion in the small intestine is often evoked via stimulation of the enteric nervous system ( ENS ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Another smile like the one you were giving him and he would have been fastening that ribbon himself . |
| 4 | It had been raining that night so the roads were slippy and our group was half way round the course when a friend , Catriona , suffered a puncture in her rear wheel . |
| 5 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 6 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 7 | Surely he had n't been using that tone with her a moment ago ? |
| 8 | Been using that thing that we bought . |
| 9 | How long have you been driving that piece of rust ? ’ |
| 10 | And we have just been noticing that Brentano , like the British empiricist , John Locke , thinks of believing , expecting , hoping , and so on , as things — Locke called them ‘ operations ’ , Brentano called them ‘ phenomena ’ — as things we perceive in ourselves . |
| 11 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 12 | Have you been filling that book in as you 've been erm |
| 13 | Earl Grey was so English , so sedate , and maybe Ilsa had been living that way for fifty years . |
| 14 | ‘ How many terms have you been training that cat , Mildred ? ’ said Miss Hardbroom . |
| 15 | Exactly where we had been swimming that morning . |
| 16 | And had , no doubt , been communicating that fact very successfully , thought Owen bitterly . |
| 17 | Thus , if we know of an author who wrote a very good book or article a few years ago on our chosen topic we can look up his name to see if anyone has been citing that article recently . |
| 18 | What had you been going that day ? |
| 19 | It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding . |
| 20 | No , but if she is , she 's , she 's been going that way a long time . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 22 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
| 23 | It was a shirt exactly like the one her singer had been wearing that night , as he swaggered among the women , and whispered ‘ Me quieres ? ’ to them all . |
| 24 | But no , she had n't been wearing that dress , of course she had n't . |
| 25 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 26 | But that that , I 've been reporting that fault regularly , five years ago it 's still there today . |
| 27 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 28 | It must have been discouraging that Adieu was not thought worthy to be given at Sadler 's Wells , and that the more handsome setting which Stevenson had designed for it was not used at that time . |
| 29 | The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years . |
| 30 | How many years have we been flying that route ? |