Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] [v-ing] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( GUIL meanwhile has been resuming his own theme — looking out over the audience ) Free to move , speak , extemporise , and yet . |
| 2 | Despite the problems mentioned above , credit should be given to BRAC for realising its errors and ( hopefully ) rectifying them : BRAC has been monitoring its own programme from the start , and this shows a healthy degree of self-evaluation . |
| 3 | PARLIAMENT has been reminding me this past week of some scenes from the musical Paint Your Wagon . |
| 4 | Check out day centres in your area : Canterbury 's Prince of Wales Youth Trust Day Centre has been organising its own Open Christmas scheme for the last two years . |
| 5 | Yet we have already found in Chapter 2 that the UK has , relatively speaking , been suffering from declining international competitiveness as a place in which goods are actually made , though it has been holding its own in providing financial services on a world scale , and is prosperous enough , for example , to have a demand for hypermarkets on the international model . |
| 6 | Amperif , a long-time player in the Unisys Corp storage subsystems business — it has not always enjoyed an easy relationship with Unisys — has been developing its own disk array product under the code-name Viking . |
| 7 | And while it is BPX-GOM 's first third-party agreement to remotely operate and produce from a subsea gas well , the Offshore Division has been operating its own satellite gas well , High Island A-587 , since 1991 . |
| 8 | ‘ Woolacombe has been expecting him this age , and not a word from the man to anyone ! ’ |
| 9 | Shortly after the abolition of the CPRS , Professor George Jones noted : ‘ While she has been strengthening her own personal staff resources , she has weakened those at the disposal of her Cabinet colleagues for the performances of their collective deliberations by abolishing the CPRS . |
| 10 | However , it would seem that Greg Martin , your mother 's companion when the yacht was lost , has been fooling us these past twenty years . |
| 11 | In the mean time Dr Santiago Sequeira , the hospital 's director , has been fighting his own revolution , battling against incredible odds to humanize the physical environment of the hospital and improve the general quality of patient care . |
| 12 | SCO , whose revenues are thought to be double USL 's and whose board reportedly wants to cash out , makes no secret of the fact that it has been contemplating its own initial public offering ( IPO ) for some time . |
| 13 | It is one of the reasons he has been delaying us these three days , I think , ’ Guillamon put in . |
| 14 | ‘ And that 's why that damned woman has been giving me such strange knowing looks ! |
| 15 | Yeah , he would , I suppose he 's been eating his own toes all day |
| 16 | He 's been telling me all sorts of stories about the places he 's worked in . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Chico 's been telling me all kinds of interesting stuff . ’ |
| 18 | Oh who 's been telling you all this ? |
| 19 | In between work on these sessions — and having just failed to squeeze in the Charlatans and Bob Geldof — he 's been releasing his own dance records under an assumed name and running his own record label , Foundation , for two years . |
| 20 | Lorne 's been balling me all day . |
| 21 | ‘ Very likely , ’ said the Leader , ‘ he 's been following us all the way , I could n't see him but I knew . |
| 22 | I think that 's been worrying him more than anything else you know |