Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [v-ing] [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | OSF has apparently been submitting its Motif interface to X/Open on a regular six monthly basis over the last three or four years , according to sources . |
| 2 | Obviously , Mr Gustafson has not been doing his homework , otherwise he would know that there are 48 UN resolutions calling for the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Cyprus , and the restoration of its territorial integrity and sovereignty . |
| 3 | This biggest sister to the popular J/24 has already been proving her pedigree on race courses in Britain and the States |
| 4 | sunny California may sound good … but for swimmers like Jaime King it 's all hard work … this summer she 'll be swimming for Britain in the European championships … she 's just won the senior title … and on top of all the training has also been taking her GCSE 's at school … |
| 5 | Hiya darling , hiya no I was really surprised cos he has n't been drinking his juice , and that went down |
| 6 | ‘ He has n't been paying his dues ’ , was Michael 's comment . |
| 7 | Alison , a PE student at Brighton University , emerged from the same mini-rugby structure at Bridgehaugh as Kenny Logan — who was capped at full-back for Scotland in the second Test against Australia last summer — and last season 's Scotland Under-21 No 8 , Gareth Flockhart , who has recently been honing his skills , both sporting and agricultural , in New Zealand . |
| 8 | And if it does not do that , we 've all been wasting our time . |
| 9 | They think I 'm reconciled , but I 've only been biding my time for a chance like this one you 've brought me now . |
| 10 | But religion had long been losing its power to shape and control behaviour and external forces had long sapped the traditional theocentric views of Europeans , even if it was only in 1882 that Nietzsche pronounced the notorious words : ‘ God is dead ’ . |
| 11 | Harper had been right , they had merely been changing their aim , and now the French gunners concentrated their shots at the centre of the field . |
| 12 | They had supposed the threat of Naggaroth all but extinguished , but now it seemed that the Dark Elves had merely been rebuilding their strength . |
| 13 | Many companies in the Heavy Electrical Equipment conspiracy did not dismiss ‘ guilty executives ’ ( for they had merely been doing their job ) but even those who did , did not do so with the intention of ruining them . |
| 14 | He identified his electricity bill and the telephone bill ( he hoped his colleagues had not been using his phone too much ) and a typewritten envelope which he took to be an advertisement . |
| 15 | He had not been cancelling his offer ! |
| 16 | The Wilsons were made homeless when the rented house they had lived in for three years was seized by the building society their landlord had not been paying his mortgage . |
| 17 | Sentencing Clarke at Oxford Crown Court , Judge Francis Allen said he took into account he had not been driving his van fast or badly at the time . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm not quite such a coincidence as I seem , ’ she said , ‘ I 've just been reading my uncle 's book on Aurae Phiala , that 's why I came to have a look at the place for myself . |
| 19 | Though , ever a man to confuse her , he greeted her pleasantly , ‘ Good morning , darling , ’ and , in case she had n't got the message that the endearment was only on account of their audience , ‘ I 've just been telling my uncle that we 'll be leaving after breakfast . ’ |
| 20 | Charles Archer says , ‘ I had just been manning my gun and had sat down when we took the hit . |
| 21 | I 'm very much aware I 've not been saying my name each time I 've been speaking but probably too late now . |
| 22 | At the time Rachel herself had still been doing her training but they had all worked at the same hospital — David as a senior house officer and Jennifer as a staff nurse on Orthopaedics . |
| 23 | He had also been ignoring his health . |
| 24 | WIDOW Jean Courtenay tells today of the moment she confronted the woman with whom , for years , she had unwittingly been sharing her husband . |
| 25 | Damn you , she wanted to say , suddenly hating him as she hated realising that while he had watched her reading from the Palmer & Pearson file that night — she had been oblivious that she had n't been wearing her spectacles — but not so him ! |
| 26 | Cos he had n't been paying his maintenance you see . |
| 27 | Ace had found herself inventing new techniques as she tried to use the shuttle 's processors to hack into the station 's maintenance systems , but there had been no indication that the station had even been receiving her signals . |
| 28 | he had instead been cultivating his acquaintanceship with Mercer , a game plan that would have come to an abrupt end if the Lorrimores had deserted the trip , which they would have done at once if the Canadian had ploughed into their home-from-home . |
| 29 | To her annoyance she found that just for a while there , while they had been swimming and afterwards when they 'd first gone into the club , she had actually been enjoying his company . |
| 30 | Rosemerry and her husband , Harry , 50 , later found that their gentle playing had actually been breaking their daughter 's bones . |