Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | and MOS equipment , which again , we we 've b successfully been doing over the last two or three years . |
2 | He had n't been doing and er reckon he and er think I 'm and that was it so right Been driving since he was nineteen |
3 | I have latterly been speaking only of causal circumstances , and not causes . |
4 | Having worked his way up via his own live spoof chat show Vic 's Big Night Out , he has latterly been guesting on television 's One Hour With Jonathan Ross , a show whose format bears a strong resemblance to Reeves 's own showcase . |
5 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |
6 | ‘ Whoever it is has presumably been coming regularly since last November so he or she must have been seen by other people . |
7 | I had secretly been hoping to see my colleague tortured a little . |
8 | Just then my sister , who had secretly been listening outside the forge , called to Joe through one of the windows , ‘ You fool ! |
9 | Before he left for Lincoln College on 14 October '98 , Helen was peremptorily given a week 's notice by Mrs Andrews who had secretly been reading Edward 's letters and now accused Helen of ‘ illicit connexion ’ with him . |
10 | Knuckle down to any jobs you 've been promising all and sundry to do , but have secretly been avoiding like the plague . |
11 | ENGINEERS at Philips in Britain have secretly been working on a flat screen television for several years , while hotly denying the fact . |
12 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
13 | What had she secretly been yearning to hear him say ? |
14 | But our legal practice is not unilateralist in this way over the broad reaches of the private law that we have mostly been discussing in this book-judges very often decide for the plaintiff , as they did in McLoughlin , when according to conventionalism the plaintiff had no legal right to win . |
15 | Opinion in Washington had slowly been moving , during the previous three months , to the conclusion that it was not essential for the Soviet Union to participate in the final stages of the Pacific conflict . |
16 | Far-sighted high achievers have slowly been transferring their energy from employment to other activities , just to meet this moment . |
17 | ‘ These deals have slowly been finding out that they just ca n't get financing , ’ said William Lefebvre , a market analyst with New York 's Advest group . |
18 | Spoiled and wilful she might be at times , but the emotional distance between them caused by the difference in their ages and their forced separation in childhood had slowly been closing over the past two years . |
19 | But to the extent that rationality continues to prevail , we have long since been submitting all codes to ‘ Be aware ’ , without noticing that this imperative is creative of values as well as destructive . |
20 | IBM had originally agreed to help finance the project through to the end of 1992 , and has since been helping Supercomputing Systems to meet its payroll on a week-by-week basis . |
21 | Han Chinese have since been pouring in , lured by promises of jobs and entrepreneurial opportunities . |
22 | Dr Ian Keeping , who diagnosed TB and has since been treating the doctor , said : ‘ The man stopped work immediately and we set about investigations to establish a diagnosis . |
23 | Dominic Arnold trained at the Drama Centre and has since been working constantly , both in television and at Glasgow 's Citizens ' Theatre . |
24 | Sarah Huntley trained at the Drama Centre and has since been working constantly , in television , in the West End , at the National Theatre , at Stratford East , Northampton and for the Kent Theatre Company . |
25 | The buy-out company — premier Brands — has since been doing well and Sir Adrian is confident Cadbury 's shareholders will have nothing to complain about when the new company does eventually go to the market . |
26 | After the discovery that the Tramways Department had effectively been subsidising the Illuminations for years , a completely new Illuminations Department was set up in 1936 under Freddie Field . |
27 | Thus , for all the vast growth in the range of government activities — which has meant that civil servants have effectively been making major business decisions on the allocation of resources — the Treasury made little attempt to devise fundamentally new and appropriate methods of training and re-training [ Fulton Report , 1968 ; Chapman and Greenaway , 1980 ] . |
28 | I 'd rather been hoping Lewis or Verity might have asked me what the file contained by now , and what I was doing , but — annoyingly — neither of them had . |
29 | I had rather been hoping that I might see somebody I knew while I was in the town , but the only people I saw were old Mackenzie in the gun and tackle shop and Mrs Stuart in the cafe , yawning and fat behind her Formica counters and reading a Mills & boon . |
30 | Hello there , oh not too bad y'know erm let's see , just done child sex abuse , or rather been talking about it |