Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adj] [noun] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Midlanders have been eating humble pie this season , though they deserve better fare . |
| 2 | Almost at once Ruth felt as if she were sliding into a dream ; the glade vanished behind them , and soon she seemed to have been walking this path all her life , through the vista of trees , with the tip of Fand 's spear faintly gleaming , and Adam ahead of her , treading like a king . |
| 3 | We 've been combing this mountainside all week . ’ |
| 4 | France has been expecting heavy snow all week to 1200m … and still waits . |
| 5 | I 've been doing that amount all the time . |
| 6 | I 've been doing fair bit more than a lot of them because they |
| 7 | If Rosemary had not been suffering any stress that night , though , it was not long before the situation which had begun with Travis Hepwood became stressful . |
| 8 | Denis Summers-Smith has been chasing little birds most of his life . |
| 9 | I 'm 63 and for the past six years I have been taking two tablets each day for myxoedema of the thyroid . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Wall Street has been hitting new peaks this week too , which has given support to the London market ( and even Japan 's Nikkei index , in a typically erratic period , has gained nearly 800 points while London added its 245 ) but London has real strengths of its own . |