Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout this letter John has been insisting that Jesus Christ is God as well as man . |
| 2 | It therefore afforded a fair degree of personal relief , not to say pleasure , to see Shahid follow a career-best 132 against Kent with an equally estimable against Glamorgan , even if Nick Knight , with whom he has been competing since schooldays , has continued to get the nod when the side is at full strength . |
| 3 | Britain 's growth rate has been one of the lowest of any major Western economy since 1961 , that Britain 's share of investment has been one of the two lowest , that Britain 's share of world trade has been falling while others have had rising shares and that Britain 's rate of inflation has been one of the fastest in the Western world . |
| 4 | Until the autumn he was paddling about twice a week and most competitive activity has been running and squash rather than paddling . |
| 5 | ‘ That rope has been missing since Linkworth was hanged , ’ he said . |
| 6 | Sheringham finally completed his move from Nottingham Forest yesterday and will be out to provide Spurs with the firepower that has been missing since Gary Lineker left . |
| 7 | The political battle has been smouldering since Ukraine declared its independence in August . |
| 8 | For the past six months Jardines has been arguing that Hong Kong 's largest companies should be granted ‘ exempt listing status ’ . |
| 9 | Suddenly she realised just how much she 'd been hoping that Jake and Janice were still not married . |
| 10 | The far-off cries of the lone bird they 'd been hearing since sunset had recently seemed to double in intensity , and Loc realized that Paul Devraux had been echoing its call by blowing on blades of jungle grass between his thumbs . |
| 11 | It was difficult , too , to tell how far I 'd come on my own : before , we 'd been talking and time had probably passed quickly . |
| 12 | She thought the girls would regard anyone who wanted to relive her childhood as wringingly wet , but they did n't openly sneer — just went back to whatever they 'd been doing while Constance and Camille walked away to appreciate the fine lines and charming dispositions of twenty greyhounds . |
| 13 | Oh , the dear love , thought Leith , having just realised that , heartsick for a sight of Rosemary , he must have been hoping that Rosemary was back and that she might , if asked , come over for a cup of coffee . |
| 14 | Almost certainly there would have been lobbying and wheeler-dealing , meetings and get-togethers behind the scenes . |
| 15 | The fifth day could only have been absorbing if Miandad had set England a target , and on this tablet of clay or loam or whatever it was , that would have been madness . |
| 16 | All my programmes would have been working and people would have seen what I was trying to do . " |
| 17 | He had been hoping that Kirov would not demand the negative of the composite . |
| 18 | Her pony-tail was weaving like a snake , and she was still dressed in blood-stained black armour and shiny leggings ; the same kit that she had been wearing when Ardamal and his section had dragged her , kicking and screaming , into the IMC executive transporter . |
| 19 | Ludens saw , on top of a closed suitcase in a corner , the curious light-brown cap which Marcus had been wearing when Ludens had seen him first , through the window of Red Cottage . |
| 20 | By then Tony Elliott was rumbling along and previously It had been providing that function . ’ |
| 21 | Fleury had been expecting that Louise would pay him a visit before she retired to bed . |
| 22 | Lewis , too , had been watching as Aldrich wrote out his statement ; and wondering how a man could write so fluently . |
| 23 | If Weaver had been watching as Liz Spalding had been smuggled into the house , then the element of surprise was lost . |
| 24 | The Doctor returned to the main chamber , and picked up a bottle which he had been examining when Dubois called . |
| 25 | Ruth had no idea how long they had been driving when Sean turned the horses off the road on to a narrow side track . |
| 26 | Blindly she moved back to her desk again , to the neat pages she had been stacking when Rob had come into the room . |
| 27 | While Rauschning emphasised reconciliation , understanding and harmony through balanced trade , Forster had been saying that reconciliation with the Poles was impossible and endlessly repeating that a return to the Reich was essential , but was prevented only by the intransigence of the vengeful Poles . |
| 28 | In [ 17 ] the author writes that he had been saying that Gardner looked very square : But of course Carver had not actually said that Gardner looked very square , at least not in the Gricean ( Grice 1981 ) sense of the word . |
| 29 | Technically , says Mr Nearn , it was not a big step for Caterham to move into manufacturing the car it had been selling and marketing for years . |
| 30 | When it bombed , despite all the planning , market research , and design that had gone into it , Ford realized that something was happening in the automobile market that ran counter to the basic assumptions on which GM and everyone else had been designing and marketing cars . |