Example sentences of "been [v-ing] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They can do erm damage to a section of the network erm that does not bring about major destruction and with this accurate bombing that we 've been seeing this kind of operation is possible . |
| 2 | Have you been eating this cake ? |
| 3 | They have become part of a stinging indictment of the way the South African police , blase about murder in a brutal society , have been handling this investigation . |
| 4 | Together Skylark have been bringing this music far beyond these shores , to Europe , America and even Australia , so it 's a delight to welcome them back to the Harp Folk Club after an absence of five years . |
| 5 | Everything seemed brittle , and while that 's not uncommon with Strats , I 've been using this guitar regularly and it 's a particularly smooth one . |
| 6 | The West Germans had been using this technique to stimulate postwar rebuilding since the 1950s , and the Department of the Environment clearly saw some parallels . |
| 7 | So after they 'd been using this stuff with no windows open or anything , one of the workmen began to feel a little bit groggy so he said to his mate and open the back door Charlie , will you , I 'm feeling a bit groggy . |
| 8 | ‘ And how , ’ demanded Hugh over his midday table , ‘ are we to take this chapter of wonders you 've been unfolding this morning ? |
| 9 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route everyday for the last ten years . |
| 10 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |
| 11 | Almost at once Ruth felt as if she were sliding into a dream ; the glade vanished behind them , and soon she seemed to have been walking this path all her life , through the vista of trees , with the tip of Fand 's spear faintly gleaming , and Adam ahead of her , treading like a king . |
| 12 | Volunteers at the centre have been videoing this pair of kingfishers and so far it looks as though the experiment is a success . |
| 13 | Yet another victim , no doubt , of this Government 's crippling monetary policies , policies which have been driving this country to economic ruin for the past 13 years , and which can be alleviated only by the immediate election of a Labour government . |
| 14 | ‘ While you 've been sitting on your intellectual arses alternately pitying yourselves and the so-called workers , it 's my hard work , my money that 's been keeping this country — ’ Stalking off indoors ; the door shuts . |
| 15 | A consultative panel on badgers has been meeting this week ; it 'll make recomendations to the Agriculture Minister , John Gummer , which may include the introduction of widespread TB testing . |
| 16 | John has been dreading this moment . |
| 17 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 18 | The period during which I have been writing this chapter has seen one of the worst staffing levels ever at the women 's flat . |
| 19 | All this time , all these years , I 've been lugging this weight around with me , for so long now that I 've forgotten what it 's like to be free of it . |
| 20 | We 've been gardening this morning . |
| 21 | She had been imagining this meeting for some time . |
| 22 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 23 | Following upon the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 , a whole succession of English bishops had been publishing this legislation and adding to it their own diocesan statutes ; Pecham himself in 1281 drew upon the legislation of two archbishops — Langton ( 1222 ) and Boniface ( 1261 ) — and two papal legates — Otto ( 1237 ) and Ottobuono ( 1268 ) . |
| 24 | How would you feel if you 'd been paying this money for ten years and then you lived , you lived after than , and you got nothing for it basically . |
| 25 | he 's been paying this bloke thirty quid , then he said twenty quid , today he said sixteen quid |
| 26 | Roll-A-Joint has been disappointing this season and if he runs will be meeting Cool Ground on a stone worse terms , while Little Polveir is a stone better off with Cool Ground , who , at 10-1 , is the other each-way bet . |
| 27 | We have been compiling this dossier ever since . ’ |
| 28 | But he was careful to appeal to the have-nots against the privileged and college-educated ‘ who have been selling this nation out — the bright young men who are born with silver spoons in their mouths . ’ |
| 29 | Has it been going this lesson ? |
| 30 | XYZ Foods are well-known for their pioneering work in the field of slimming foods and they have been researching this pack for the last year . |