Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [prep] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been toying with her that day on the river , playing games to satisfy some peculiar quirk of his character . |
| 2 | At 07.30 , the Allied artillery , which for the previous 65 minutes had been firing at its greatest intensity , lifted . |
| 3 | Morant , Chambers and others were aware that for ten years or more several LEAs including Sheffield , Nottingham , Wigan , Liverpool , Carlisle , Finchley , Bolton , Cambridge , and Edinburgh had been experimenting with their own employment schemes . |
| 4 | Alec and I had been climbing on his right-hand side . |
| 5 | You 've been listening to his scaremongering nonsense . |
| 6 | The right hon. Gentleman has not been listening to his hon. Friends . |
| 7 | I 've been looking for him all afternoon , but he must have been tied up with work . |
| 8 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 9 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 10 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 11 | Darlington has been boasting about its forthcoming attraction at the Cornmill . |
| 12 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
| 13 | I 've been sifting through my daily routine and I 've turned up quite a handsome collection of finely-wrought deceits cultivated over the years . |
| 14 | A curd which has been soaking in its own whey makes an acid cheese ( which explains the often sharp taste of Eastern Mediterranean white cheeses which are sometimes stored in whey ) . |
| 15 | Margaret , who had been living with her married sister in Oxford , soon came to join her mother . |
| 16 | Nicholas had been living with his widowed mother in London . |
| 17 | Wayne was enchanted to see Hermia and Perdita , and gave the appearance of having been searching for them all day . |
| 18 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 19 | ‘ So , by preventing Heather from leaving , you would have been acting in her best interests as well as yours ? ’ |
| 20 | He had been acting in his departmental role , gathering information for Mr Parkinson , when he contacted Eurotunnel . |
| 21 | The Earl had been shouting at her that morning , ‘ Have n't you gone yet ? |
| 22 | ‘ Father , I have been waiting for you all afternoon . ’ |
| 23 | FOR two years NATO has been fretting about its new place in the world , if any , after the fading of the Soviet danger , if fade it does . |
| 24 | ( Widowed woman receiving ( then ) supplementary benefit who had been caring for her frail mother for ten years ) |
| 25 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 26 | I think it would have been the Zetland , and — who knows — Mrs Field may have been riding with them that day . |
| 27 | What likes have your sisters been spreading about me this time ? |
| 28 | He had been staying with our best man , Leading Seaman Geoffrey Bond , who , for health reasons was now leaving the Navy to do work in the coal mines . |
| 29 | ‘ Then it must have been two other people that have been kissing on our front porch for the last nine months . |
| 30 | Hello , well what 's your mum been doing to you this morning ? |