Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To compliment and complete the Scandinavian experience we ‘ ve been having this winter , The Whitworth Art Gallery and the Fitzwilliam Museum have collaborated to organise the first exhibition here of Norway 's most outstanding landscape painters , Johan christian Dahl ( 1788–1857 ) and Thomas Fearnley ( 1802–42 ) . |
| 2 | All these months while I 've been writing these letters for her , I 've been putting myself in her place , feeling all the love she feels , remembering things that I never really knew about in the first place . |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been writing short stories and poems for years but last year I decided to try and get something published . |
| 4 | I 've been watching General Secord on CNN in my hotel room . |
| 5 | And David quite got his bearings right , full toss that one , I 've , I 've been watching this summer this slope at Lord 's can play havoc with bowlers and I always get the impression that er , he 's , he bowls better than the nursery end at Lord 's , David Lawrence . |
| 6 | I 've been saving five pounds a week for practically the whole of the year . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been saving these weapons up for him , ’ he continued . |
| 8 | waistcoat I 've been saving some time to get them . |
| 9 | I 've been ringing all morning but I could n't get any answer . ’ |
| 10 | I 've been riding this horse for a couple of years now and he never lets me down . |
| 11 | Let me say first , I 've been nursing psychiatric patients for more than twenty years and I know what I 'm talking about . |
| 12 | I mean , I 've been living this guy for three weeks now and Vic starts telling me how to speak ? |
| 13 | We 've been combing this mountainside all week . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We 've been refusing that man a cheque book for months but he just went inside and someone from senior management , who has n't been behind a counter for years , just hands one over without a thought . ’ |
| 15 | I 've been administering first aid . ’ |
| 16 | Although you see erm as we 've been suggesting any project requires that . |
| 17 | ‘ Recently I 've been copying vocal ideas — particularly the traditional singers of Japan . |
| 18 | I 'd heard Joe Walsh and Pete Townshend used them quite heavy , and I rather liked the tone they got , so I slowly built it up until I got up as high as I could be comfortable with , and I 've been using that gauge ever since . ’ |
| 19 | Everything seemed brittle , and while that 's not uncommon with Strats , I 've been using this guitar regularly and it 's a particularly smooth one . |
| 20 | And it 's been a fairly good evening if you 've been using public transport . |
| 21 | It sounds as though you 've been using more conditioner than your hair needs . |
| 22 | Because it may be that you th you , you look back and say , Christ , we 've been using those standards since nineteen seventy . |
| 23 | They 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources and expertise , to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 24 | And yet they 've been using enormous amounts of their own resources , both finance and , and manpower resources and expertise to make life easier for , for the people who are going through their country . |
| 25 | Yeah it 's more difficult to keep up with others if they if they 're older and they 've been learning this stuff for a lot longer |
| 26 | In China they 've been eating mouldering cabbage for aeons and it gives them cancer of the oesophagus . |
| 27 | We are ready , we 've been eating raw meat and some of us can still move which is a major bonus to us |
| 28 | " You 've been reading that hook , " Graham said . |
| 29 | ‘ You 've been reading strange books again , ’ he said . |
| 30 | As you 've been reading this book God has been telling the Holy Spirit to make the bits that are especially important for you to stick in your mind . |