Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [pron] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | he would n't of been touching it with this . |
| 2 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 3 | I have been using it for some years and encourage my junior staff to do the same . |
| 4 | but , because I 've been knocking it off that bit earlier |
| 5 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 6 | But if Mr Menzies had thought of this he must have been keeping it for another Sunday . |
| 7 | My daughter , my grandkids hurt , and you 've been quizzing me about some job years ago that did n't even involve me ! , |
| 8 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 9 | Charlton confessed : ‘ This one has been troubling me for some time . |
| 10 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 11 | With such a clear need to understand power , why has it , until recently , been avoided by managerial researchers , especially when sociologists have been analysing it for more than a century ? |
| 12 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 13 | For I appear to be going round in circles in answer to a question which has been worrying me for some time . |
| 14 | Something else about the chimney-breast , I realize , has been worrying me for some time now . |
| 15 | She said , ‘ Because I 've been feeding you for all these years and buying your shoes and your clothes ! ’ |
| 16 | Though she was completely covered she might just as well have been wearing nothing at all . |
| 17 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 18 | Platt said : ‘ It has been niggling me for some time and , although it is nothing serious , it has been decided to sort it out sooner rather than later . ’ |
| 19 | She has n't heard Alina walking across the terrace , and has n't even been expecting her for another half-hour . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been expecting something like that to happen , ’ she said . |
| 21 | Subconsciously he must have been expecting something like this : his first reaction was not surprise but an intensification of the dull misery which had enveloped him for the last 24 hours . |
| 22 | He 'd been expecting something like this since Isabel had killed the soldier . |
| 23 | Although she had been expecting something like this , Robbie 's mouth was suddenly dry , her tongue cleaving to the roof of her mouth . |
| 24 | Another man said that Portadown had been expecting something like this after the recent attacks in Lurgan . |
| 25 | Tulagai was flushed and it was apparent that Jotan had been baiting him for some time . |
| 26 | a hundred , you know that , you just sort of , you 've just been doing it on those out of your head , so we 've got two hundred times , now what do we finish off with , we finish off with once |
| 27 | I , I think most people would feel , we 've been doing it for such a while |
| 28 | I mean I 've been doing it for such a long time now it 's important to me to go on doing it , but then that might be rather like it 's important for you to go on doing physics , is n't it ? |
| 29 | Have you been doing it for many years ? |
| 30 | To start with , you might have to go through the whole exercise in order to relax again but , once you have been doing it for some time , you will find that all you need to do is to picture your own peaceful scene and , because the link is permanently there in your subconscious mind , you will immediately begin to feel more peaceful , both mentally and physically . |