Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [prep] [det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unigram 's Tokyo bureau has been looking at some of the research work being developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co at its Tokyo Information and Communications Research Laboratory . |
| 2 | SUNDAY LIFE has been looking at some of the Irish people and places which get a mention in the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 3 | Industrial production has been falling in many of the world 's largest economies — over the last year it has fallen 2 per cent in Italy ; by 2.5 per cent in France ; by 6.5 per cent in Germany ; and by 7 per cent in Japan . |
| 4 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 5 | In terms of ideology it is exactly what the FMLN has been fighting for these past seven years . |
| 6 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 7 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 8 | There was no law , strictly speaking , against experimenting , although considering the stage which Alexei 's trials had reached , it was clear that he must have been working on this for some time . |
| 9 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 10 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 11 | It was particularly disappointing as the Scots had shown signs of a refreshing midfield arrogance which had been missing from many of their recent displays . |
| 12 | Had been dreaming about this for a long time , he wrote . |
| 13 | She had been feeling like this about Dr Russell for nearly a year . |
| 14 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
| 16 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 17 | She thought : I 've been living like this for years . |
| 18 | ‘ You 've been playin' with that for hours . ’ |
| 19 | Well , I 've been complaining about this for about three years now and the county council continues to think the forty mile an hour speed limit is perfectly alright . |
| 20 | Now we 've been asking for this for years . |
| 21 | You might remember I 've been pressing for this for about eighteen bloody months . |
| 22 | where I 've dropped it for , well then , it 's the toilet brush you see , I 've been going like this with the toilet |
| 23 | No Sally 's new at the job , we 've been working at this for for on on the technical front for some time , now let's just sit down and and work out what we 're gon na do . |
| 24 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
| 26 | I think perhaps the council will now see why I 'm getting so frustrated and it 's because we 've been talking about this for over twelve months . |
| 27 | I 've been talking to some of them about it , it 's meant to be , cos I did n't know it was going on , and I saw them in the paper , says oh ! |
| 28 | I 've been waiting for this for so long that I do n't think I can wait any longer — ’ |
| 29 | I can say without embarrassment that I have been training for this for a long time , that I have learned to breathe the rarefied air , that I now know when to stand still and when to move forward , when to attack and when to retreat , when to leave a problem to resolve itself and when to go on working at it till the solution emerges . |
| 30 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |