Example sentences of "been [v-ing] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is reasonable , as one would expect deaf people in the USA to have been using some sign language before the imported use of FSL . |
| 2 | But no news is good news , and Mr Clarke has been drawing some comfort from the fact that he has n't heard from his own local family doctor . |
| 3 | I 've been contacting some reporter pals . |
| 4 | Although the UK market has only been contributing some £15,000 a month or so to the company 's coffers , Christoforou expects to appoint half a dozen sales staff by April and says he will be looking for the outfit to turn over £2m plus in its first year . |
| 5 | It was only a good six minutes later that this squadron of battleships , which had been steaming some 8km/5mls behind Beatty in his flagship Lion , turned ; this delay left the squadron about 16km/10mls behind Beatty 's battlecruisers . |
| 6 | Over the eighteenth century higher London wages had been driving some manufactures into the country . |
| 7 | It is understood that the deal had been held up by the Bank of England which had been seeking some form of ‘ comfort ’ from Bank of Edinburgh 's largest minority shareholder , Scottish Amicable , with 39.2 per cent , effectively asking it to stand behind depositors and take a more active role . |
| 8 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 9 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 10 | Erm which would give you some contact with erm , er you know people who 'd er er just come out of prison or , or you know had been serving some sort of sentence or other , you know , maybe not a custodial one or something . |
| 11 | He must have been causing some problems . |
| 12 | The committee also decided in future to pay the CAB quarterly grants in advance , rather than in arrears which has been causing some cash flow problems . |
| 13 | its been , that has been blistering some time that , think its |
| 14 | ‘ She 's been going some years . ’ |
| 15 | And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there . |
| 16 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 17 | As I mentioned , you 've been getting some advocacy experience , although you might not have realized it , in litigation already . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've just been brewing some coffee — I expect you 'd like a cup . |
| 19 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 20 | It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled . |
| 21 | It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 . |
| 22 | been having some kind of direction there , has n't he , I mean at |
| 23 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 24 | Erm mine 's good but Martin 's been having some back trouble . |
| 25 | ‘ And they 've been having some restoration work done on it . |
| 26 | In the hot weather the works has been having some trouble in staying in reasonable control of its effluent . |
| 27 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 28 | And this I 've had to take it twice while I 've been doing some shopping now . |
| 29 | I dare n't say about the future but I have been doing some stuff with girls teen magazines . |
| 30 | ‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders . |