Example sentences of "[verb] obviously be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The selection provides ample evidence that since she retired for health reasons from her full-time post as curator of the DLI Museum in Durham , Nerys has obviously been enjoying herself enormously . |
| 2 | Jerry refuses with zest ; he has obviously been springing to his own defence for many a long year . |
| 3 | So this kind of erm interest in children and in whether a couple are able to have children or not is has obviously been lying at the back of his mind has n't he ? |
| 4 | ‘ She has obviously been practising hard , ’ said a BDA spokeswoman . |
| 5 | Erm you know but he 's saying the developments of the peasant movement has resulted in the rapid rise in their cultural level erm you know so on the one hand he 's , I mean in a way he 's , he 's trying to re-educate the whole peasant class erm and , and change their way of thinking which previously has obviously been going on , you know , since Confucian |
| 6 | She 'd obviously been counting on me having one , because the chillim was poised at her lips , ready for her to pull in deeply when the surface leaves caught fire . |
| 7 | he 'd obviously been talking about , erm |
| 8 | Yes I mean er when I s er you know when I was on the Q E Two and was chatting with a fella and er he , they 'd been , he 'd obviously been cruising before and was on this cruise and er they were going on the er another Cunard ship a few months later , and it turned out that he was a hotelier who 'd bought a hotel in Swanage some years ago , I think he 'd had about seven bedrooms when he bought it and he gradually extended it , I forget how many he did tell me , and then he had a bit of a heart er attack and er his doctor told him to , you know , well if I were you I 'd just pack in your job which he did and that was about fifteen years ago he was I du n no if he was eighty or he was approaching eighty if he was n't and was in pretty good form , he was dancing , and er , you know , I mean there money 's no object . |
| 9 | Wh erm Terry 's feelings there do they you 've obviously been speaking to large numbers of protestors do they marry with the other opinions that you hear ? |
| 10 | And I noticed at one point in the discussion , this was queried by H B F. I think they feared that we would n't at that stage we 'd be opening up free for all of the kind which we 've obviously been seeking to avoid thus far . |
| 11 | She said in a statement that he and his close friend Gary Burn and one or two others were in a boisterous mood , and had obviously been drinking heavilly . |
| 12 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |
| 13 | I heard some uncertain footsteps and he lurched on , waving a jug of orange juice , which was not the drink he had obviously been consuming in huge quantities . |
| 14 | Then he saw a wonderfully pretty girl who had obviously been watching him for a long time . |
| 15 | This chap had obviously been watching Mrs Connon in her bedroom , from the street almost certainly , or the garden . |
| 16 | Everyone in this part of the world had obviously been fighting against either the Russians or the Yugoslavs , but the devil of it was that they were prepared to do anything rather than surrender to either of these armies . " |
| 17 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 18 | He had obviously been arguing with it — when Masklin walked up he glared at him and said , ‘ It wo n't do what I tell it ! ’ |
| 19 | The photographer had obviously been studying portraits of Betty Grable and other film stars and was trying to be very artistic , with much back lighting and fluffing out of hair , and I must admit that my hair ( touching my shoulders , naturally ) , did look nice . |
| 20 | Girls had obviously been standing in line for this man from the first day he 'd put on long trousers — or even earlier , she thought grimly . |
| 21 | The snow had obviously been falling for hours , probably while she was still watching The Blue Angel . |
| 22 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 23 | The other people in the queue had obviously been waiting longer than I and were moaning and groaning . |
| 24 | He had obviously been waiting to see how the first got on . |
| 25 | Suzi was pale and had obviously been crying : He did hope Gesner had n't done anything to interfere with the opening production next Tuesday . |
| 26 | He had obviously been sleeping out the daylight in the gloom of the kirk , never expecting that some idiot with a camera , rucksack and heavy boots would come crashing into his bedroom . |
| 27 | He had obviously been sleeping ; his hair was ruffled and untidy and his chin unshaven and covered with a short , dark stubble . |
| 28 | She alighted at Groppis , and inside took a seat beside an aristocratic-looking Lt Colonel , who had obviously been awaiting her . |
| 29 | looking after the littlest ones all day and and she 's obviously been speaking to them like that during |
| 30 | He 's obviously been doing that since your pregnancy , yet you 've only just begun to notice how little he confides in you . |