Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | How much have you been seeing of Jones during the weeks when I 've had to leave you alone here ? |
| 2 | All over Spain , rebel officers put into action the plan they had been elaborating since December of the previous year . |
| 3 | United have been tumbling into trouble over the last couple of weeks … last time they won was Denis Smith 's first match as manager … |
| 4 | The Bishop , the Right Reverend Peter Ball , has been resting on orders of the Archbishop of Canterbury , since being questioned by police before Christmas . |
| 5 | Meanwhile Oxford University have been struggling against Nottinghamshire at the Parks.The visitors declared at two hundred and twenty four ( 224 ) for four . |
| 6 | I find the French development encouraging , for I have myself for years been experimenting with whisky in the cooking pots . |
| 7 | A sturdily middle-class society does not sit easily atop political immobility ; and , indeed , Taiwan has been experimenting with reform for the past three years . |
| 8 | He had been appearing on television at the time . |
| 9 | For the past ten years , Frank Riding has been alternating between work with the Red Cross , and his quiet rural practice here in Britain . |
| 10 | They had already become British subjects and had been trading in corn from the United States of America and morocco to Madeira . |
| 11 | The NPKTF , which had taken definitive form in 1902 , had been pressing for reconciliation within the Edinburgh branch , and was to play a strongly supporting role in 1910 . |
| 12 | The most explicitly analogous changes to those in the UK have been occurring in Australia with the development of multidisciplinary geriatric assessment teams to assess entry to publicly funded care , the development of the Home and Community Care Act to develop enhanced home care services with additional central government funding and the community options programme , designed to provide co-ordinated care at home for the most vulnerable through case management ( Ozanne , 1990 ; DCS , 1986 ; Graham et al. , 1992 ) . |
| 13 | To some extent this is what has been happening in Britain in the 1980s . |
| 14 | Operations manager Siobhan Hunter , who is responsible for the Morgan Grenfell contract , says : ‘ We 've been looking at computers for the past 18 months , and we went for Caterdata , having seen it in action at BE Services , the in-house caterer at the Bank of England . ’ |
| 15 | Council officers have also been looking at playgrounds in the Witham area . |
| 16 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 17 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 18 | He now has two gardeners working full time : Dennis , a grand old boy who has scarcely been out of Gloucestershire in his life — and has been looking after foxhounds for the Duke of Beaufort for most of it ; and Trevor Jacobs , a younger and professionally qualified horticulturist . |
| 19 | Only in his more recent work The Power of the Center , published in 1988 , has he been looking from art to the resources offered by psychology . |
| 20 | Environmental groups have been lobbying for years about the issue . |
| 21 | Like hundreds of other child victims of the bloody Yugoslav war , Natasha had been sheltering from gunfire in the Sarajevo orphanage , when Mike found her . |
| 22 | This course gives students the opportunity to study in-depth the cultural and historical forces which have been operating in Ireland since the 17th century . |
| 23 | This option is of particular interest to students who wish to increase their awareness and understanding of the cultural and historical forces which have been operating in Ireland since the 17th century . |
| 24 | He says even though his company as been operating in Spain for the past 10 years , it has found it difficult to establish a market there . |
| 25 | And the wives had been living on credit to the grocer in the village . |
| 26 | The daughter of a rich Jewish textile manufacturer from Lodz , this highly intelligent woman of great charm and style had been living in Germany during the years when Hitler was coming to power , and the persecution of Jews had begun . |
| 27 | At Benjamin Rhodes , there are new paintings by Simon Edmondson ( 17 June-7 August ) , who has been living in Madrid for the last twelve months and previously showed with Nicola Jacobs . |
| 28 | Without knowing it I have been living in poverty for the past 14 years . |
| 29 | Eli has been trembling with fear for the ark . |
| 30 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |