Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because I recko , I reckon they must of been paid for that because Maury has n't been phoning up and saying oh you have n't paid it ! |
| 2 | Concern that this uncontrolled expansion of the private sector had been siphoning off funds that might have been more cost effectively used in home based community care led to the government commissioning reviews of resource management and quality of care . |
| 3 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 4 | Later generations of women have been catching up with their male contemporaries as far as the acquisition of paper qualifications is concerned . |
| 5 | Lionel who had been catching up on news from Yorkshire , said , ‘ My brother tells me Hawksworth at the Hall has netted an enormous fish . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been catching up on the week 's news , and who do I find hitting the headlines yet again ? ’ |
| 7 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
| 8 | Civil war has been eating up the country for five years . |
| 9 | When they have been eating out all the time they have been away , and are longing for an evening at home , the suggestion does not go down well . |
| 10 | Foreign investors have been queueing up to buy them . |
| 11 | People will have been queueing up this morning to buy these stamps . |
| 12 | And from what she 's been prattling on about she 's had a number of uncles . ’ |
| 13 | The scenery they 'd been flashing through was spectacular , endless coconut and banana palms , glimpses of white sand and water , fluttering green against deep blue and silver . |
| 14 | The management has , very decently , been slapping up borrowed works of art . |
| 15 | Telling you , I thought we 'd of been clomping around on the bare floor-boards and sitting on orange-boxes watching a wee black-and-white portable for ever . |
| 16 | Even at this early stage of contact between white and black in Britain , it is clear that she would have been building on already existing racial caricature and prejudice rather than creating an artificial tide of hostility against black people . |
| 17 | But even this , Wemmick decides to keep to his life at Walworth and not let it be mentioned in Little Britain which even though it seems odd , stays within the boundaries of his character which Dickens has been building on . |
| 18 | With the tent flap closed , the heat had been building up under the canvas . |
| 19 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 20 | Australian Mutual Provident has been building up its stake in Pearl for the last two years . |
| 21 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 22 | Despite the pressure which has been building up on the government in recent months , including growing dissent within her own party , she reiterated her old misgivings about the monetary system and added a new one for good measure . |
| 23 | The considerable scope for destocking — the main cause of the recession of the early 1980s — was highlighted by the CSO , which said industry had been building up inventories of unsold goods for two years . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's been building up to this . |
| 25 | Towards the end of the 19th century , a crisis had been building up over the names of organic compounds . |
| 26 | The pressure — it 's been building up like a head of steam … ’ |
| 27 | For Alfred Watkins , it was not a sudden flash of inspiration from the beyond but something which had been building up within the deeper levels of his being throughout a lifetime of contact with his native countryside . |
| 28 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 29 | ‘ It was heat-of-the-moment stuff but it 's been building up over a little while . |
| 30 | While men have been destroying life , women have been building up a system that will diminish suffering and save life . |