Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [noun] or [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he wrote about seals , as in The People of the Sea ; and when he discussed the personality of the hare ; and when , in books such as Woodbrook and Nairn in Darkness and Light , he traced the fading and departing of old ways — he might have been writing poems or novels . |
| 2 | For years dowsers have been detecting ‘ black streams ’ which may have been causing accidents or illness . |
| 3 | numeracy because Andrew would n't have been testing algebra or things like that , you 'd have just |
| 4 | The findings pointed to a lack of training for social services staff and suggested senior SSD managers had not been providing workers or users with information about the changes . |
| 5 | You 'd go to a school where they 'd been doing French or Latin for two or three years and you had n't done any at all . |
| 6 | But neither had been carrying coal or water jug — only sacking , an unlikely receptacle for either commodity … |
| 7 | The dramatic events of the last few days might have been more easily understood had the Georgians been playing Milan or Manchester United . |
| 8 | The sheet metal workers , who cut sheet metal to the design of the drawings of the part of a car , earned 2s 6d ( 12p ) per hour , and did a lot of overtime at one and a quarter time , which means that many of them would have been earning £6 or £7 per week , and be well over the arbitrary divide of £4 suggested as a line for the divide between the working class and the middle class . |
| 9 | That he had not been misappropriating money or land for his own benefit was shown by his dire financial straits which led to his brief imprisonment as a debtor . |
| 10 | I 'd rather been hoping Lewis or Verity might have asked me what the file contained by now , and what I was doing , but — annoyingly — neither of them had . |