Example sentences of "been [verb] most of " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had the feeling I had been given most of the pieces , but not the boxfront picture to tell me how to put them together . |
| 2 | Malvern had been struggling most of the way on the only wet and windy day in an otherwise idyllic week . |
| 3 | I 'd been using most of it anyway , like . |
| 4 | Well I 'm a housewife and I 've been painting most of the morning . |
| 5 | Well it certainly is but er I 've grown potatoes myself for years and never had any trouble with them boiling into the water but this year I can not get a good potato , all of my usual favourites like Estima which I 've found is a usually good all round potato , it it 's a monkey for boiling into the water and one thing I can only assume is that the weather 's had a lot to do with it , my ground 's been waterlogged most of the season . |
| 6 | Although he has yet to win since his comeback , The Committee 's performances have been improving most of the time . |
| 7 | His first , probably sound , instinct had been to keep most of his available troops to shield Edinburgh , while reinforcing Fort Augustus , the central point in ‘ the Chain' of three forts linked by the military road along the Great Glen . |
| 8 | Our disclosure will of course interest Fergie , who has been spending most of her time with John Bryan but undoubtedly still wears the red and black £100-apiece underwear which she bought from Janet . |
| 9 | That 's where she 's been spending most of her time these last few months . ’ |
| 10 | It looks a bit chilly , and a team of balloonists have been feeling rather chilly today and have been spending most of the day in a fridge . |
| 11 | She did not go into details : that she found herself so physically revolted by the process that she had begun to retch , nor despite being warned that all new mothers had a fit of the blues after giving birth , she had been crying most of that day . |
| 12 | JULIEANNE McConville ( 20 ) , has been modelling most of her life . |
| 13 | Test kits to hand , Ian has been monitoring most of our tanks , with startling results . |