Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] been [v-ing] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Ben has also been giving those Yorkshire boys a good seeing-to with an on-sight flash of Kleptomanis ( F8a ) at the Holywood Bowl , a one-day ascent of the Yorkshire Ripper ( F8b ) at Kilnsey , and he got Magnetic Fields ( F8a/8a+ ) first red-point . |
| 3 | Mick Lovatt has also been doing some sterling work here re-equipping some of the older classics — in particular both pitches of Pierrepoint , a classic ( F7c+ , F7b+ ) have been completely rebolted . |
| 4 | Which is odd , since he has n't been doing any work for me . ’ |
| 5 | Just because even though they do n't talk very much any more and stuff and he probably has n't been spending much time with her , |
| 6 | Leonard has again been saying this week that this is likely to be his final contest . |
| 7 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 8 | In the 1940s an interest in genetic studies came to the fore , although several German investigators had already been following this line for some years . |
| 9 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 10 | Sigsworth had not been receiving any medication at the hospital to help him over his withdrawal . |
| 11 | She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed . |
| 12 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
| 13 | If Rosemary had not been suffering any stress that night , though , it was not long before the situation which had begun with Travis Hepwood became stressful . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've just been brewing some coffee — I expect you 'd like a cup . |
| 15 | All right I 've just been making some notes here . |
| 16 | But that was less surprising than that somebody had still been issuing such certificates in the chaos that had been Germany , just three weeks before the final surrender . |
| 17 | Surely he had n't been using that tone with her a moment ago ? |
| 18 | But no , she had n't been wearing that dress , of course she had n't . |
| 19 | Well at least she 's , he had n't been doing enough work somehow ! |
| 20 | She had n't been paying much attention to the journey , and did n't have any idea of where they were ; the archway led into a long courtyard with a cobbled surface and small , squeezed-in houses to either side . |
| 21 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 22 | She knew he had n't been paying any attention to the play . |
| 23 | ‘ I knew you had n't been paying any attention . |
| 24 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
| 25 | I 've actually I 've actually been doing some arithmetic while you were talking |
| 26 | Billy had certainly been making some enquiries but he had been misinformed , Danny thought . |
| 27 | This is no mean task , especially if they have not been doing any recruitment for the past few months . |
| 28 | ‘ We have not been running this campaign as an entertainment for our dear friends in the press and broadcasting media . |
| 29 | ‘ The way you and he have just been pawing each other about just has to mean that , in your own sweet way , ’ he inserted thunderously , ‘ you 've been endorsing the fact that your affair with him is over ! ’ |
| 30 | Thanks so very much for getting me Bloomfield 's annotated NT , vol I. I 'm delighted to have it , and have just been spending some time revisiting a few cruces to see what explanations are offered . |