Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table — and final agreement was reached barely 48 hours before Wednesday 17 , opening day of the San Francisco event . |
| 2 | Although the idea of COSE has been kicking around for more than a year now , it was the possibility of missing the opportunity to be a part of a very public announcement on the opening day of the UniForum show that finally drove some of the parties to the table . |
| 3 | ‘ He has been jumping around with all the other children in the ward . ’ |
| 4 | It 's the latest run in in a dispute which has been rumbling on for some weeks betweenthe Post office and the National Communications union . |
| 5 | But before it does , the Daily Mirror , along with Carry On creators Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas , has been looking back at some of the funniest moments ever to be played out on the big screen . |
| 6 | Well I think what came out of it firstly , was thanks to people like you , a tremendous amount of publicity for a problem that is certainly not a new one , one that has been going on for many many years . |
| 7 | The needless slaughter has been going on for more than a century . |
| 8 | The strike , in support of a suspended colleague , has been going on for more than a week . |
| 9 | The process has been going on for some time . |
| 10 | ‘ My father-in-law was well aware of all this ; it has been going on for some years but he would not do what was necessary to right the situation , that is cut out the loss makers and , perhaps , substitute other lines — stationery , office equipment , videos or any other line compatible with the book trade . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't really think they have done enough this has been going on for some time . |
| 12 | Well you say that International Women 's Day has been going on for some time , but here in Britain what 's known as the Women 's Movement has been in operation now for about , what , twenty one/twenty two years , something like that . |
| 13 | It is an idea the Pru has been working on for many years , and Mr Lawrence has been at the forefront of the plans . |
| 14 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 15 | Sun Microsystems Inc chief executive Scott McNealy is never at a loss for something to say , and has been sounding off about some of the current bees in his bonnet . |
| 16 | ALASTAIR McHARG , the celebrated Scotland lock , capped 44 times from 1968 to 1979 , has been sounding off in all directions over the small number of his London Scots chosen for the coming Scottish tour of Australia . |
| 17 | ‘ Everyone , including the British Government , has been waking up to this horrific plight too late . |
| 18 | She 'd been carrying on outside all morning and |
| 19 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 20 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 21 | Yeah well at the end of the day I mean I I was n't there but a the facts at the end of the day were that they 'd been buggering about with that radio system which they should n't do . |
| 22 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 23 | Offers of help have been pouring in from all quarters , with the director of the Victoria and Albert Museum , Elizabeth Esteve-Coll putting her conservation department at the ready to assist , and the Secretary of State for National Heritage , Peter Brooke , conceded that his department would be responsible for financing the repair bill . |
| 24 | Sometimes a murder enquiry will have been going on for some days before it emerges that there is a sexual element involved . |
| 25 | The argument must have been going on for some time , although Lucien had been hardly aware of it . |
| 26 | Worse still , the new skiers — beginners — who should have been making up for those who stop because old age or the arrival of infants stops ski holidays — were simply not attracted to a sport when everyone was complaining about bad conditions . |
| 27 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 28 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 29 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 30 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |