Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 2 | It is not always the child who has been building that does the packing away . |
| 3 | During the last decade evidence has been accumulating that fluid secretion in the small intestine is often evoked via stimulation of the enteric nervous system ( ENS ) . |
| 4 | I hear you say , DTP has been doing that for years Yes — but moving ones ? |
| 5 | But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark . |
| 6 | Thus , if we know of an author who wrote a very good book or article a few years ago on our chosen topic we can look up his name to see if anyone has been citing that article recently . |
| 7 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 8 | She 'd worn slacks all through rehearsals and the only other times he 'd seen her she 'd been wearing that dreary suit . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd been planning that very thing . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 11 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 12 | I thought you 'd been doing that for the thirty whatsit of July . |
| 13 | I suspect she 'd been following that fool of a carrier . ’ |
| 14 | Could she really have been reading that ? he wondered , looking around for the novel stuffed behind a cushion . |
| 15 | ' … which he thought he might have been wearing that afternoon and then changed his mind and said he had n't , ’ continued Harris , unperturbed by the interruption . |
| 16 | ‘ Another smile like the one you were giving him and he would have been fastening that ribbon himself . |
| 17 | It must have been discouraging that Adieu was not thought worthy to be given at Sadler 's Wells , and that the more handsome setting which Stevenson had designed for it was not used at that time . |
| 18 | Institute Council member Douglas Llambias said the fine ‘ was out of all proportion to a guilty verdict ’ , and added that if the fines were capped , ‘ we should have been publicising that for the last 12 months . |
| 19 | The death of Matthew Makepeace , the man who should have been lecturing that afternoon , ‘ one of the most promising scholars of his generation ’ , the old Professor used to tell us , was ‘ an inestimable loss to the department and the university as a whole ’ . |
| 20 | He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that . |
| 21 | Should n't have been doing that and should n't have been doing that . |
| 22 | Should n't have been doing that and should n't have been doing that . |
| 23 | Well he must have been doing that with the saucepan , he 's pulled all the carpet up . |
| 24 | You 'd have been doing that . |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , yer do n't mean you 'ave been doin' that , do yer ? ’ |
| 26 | Exactly where we had been swimming that morning . |
| 27 | Burn had been ploughing that May afternoon and was leading his horses back to the field after his tea . |
| 28 | It was a shirt exactly like the one her singer had been wearing that night , as he swaggered among the women , and whispered ‘ Me quieres ? ’ to them all . |
| 29 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 30 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |