Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [noun pl] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My first thought was , ‘ Oh my God , Carly 's been eating apples and drinking their juice almost all her life — ten years . |
| 2 | Emma Osterfield from Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire had been drawing sketches while drinking from a bottle . |
| 3 | Their painted eyes seemed to be full of a malignant resentment , as if they 'd once been living horses that had been turned to wood by an enchantment . |
| 4 | The Bank of Spain has been selling options that grant the right to sell the peseta at exchange rates as low as 80 to the D-mark , well below the currency 's ERM floor . |
| 5 | When the new government said it would stick to the strong franc , fund managers who had been buying shares and selling francs promptly did the opposite . |
| 6 | She had been expecting changes and had steeled herself not to resent them . |
| 7 | Three months later she joined C&R on a full-time basis , although throughout her maternity leave she had been attending meetings and helping out on special project work . |
| 8 | Opponents of the Big Bonus have been issuing handbills and vidmail shots featuring T-H-R scene-of-the-crime photographs from the horrific quadruple cheerleader-slaying in Columbus , Ohio , of last December . |
| 9 | ‘ Has she been taking pills or sniffing any … ’ |
| 10 | We 've been making inquiries and learned that Mr Putt has been seen wearing one rather similar . |
| 11 | Anna picked up the saucepan into which she had been putting potatoes and transferred it to the stove . |
| 12 | Since its conception , ANDF has been winning hearts and finds as a useful mechanism . |
| 13 | Yu hav been fighting wars an destroying de scene |
| 14 | Yu hav been fighting wars an destroying de scene |
| 15 | Yu hav been fighting wars an destroying de scene |
| 16 | Yu hav been fighting wars an destroying de scene |
| 17 | Had the Presbytery been selecting candidates and foisting them on the DUP , Smyth 's view would be more plausible . |
| 18 | Mm , well obviously they 've been casting bonds and tell judgment |
| 19 | Well he was as far as I can remember he was thirty eight he , he went he worked at the Gas Works , ca n't remember much about that really but er I think he 'd actually been working nights and came home and actually died in bed I believe . |
| 20 | Although quite a few had subsequently been dismissed , both Braithwaite and Colclough having had their spies in the Chartist ranks , men who had sung those Chartist hymns about freedom and justice the loudest as they had been memorizing names and faces to sell afterwards to Uriah and Ben . |
| 21 | It quoted an Austrian-based Romanian doctor who had been visiting relatives as saying : ‘ The first three rows of protesters collapsed dead or injured . |
| 22 | Nor does it rely principally on my experience in classrooms , though I have been , briefly , a secondary schoolteacher and have been visiting schools and working with young people in a variety of ways on and off for the last sixteen years . |