Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My Mum goes what have you been phoning Billy for ? |
| 2 | Apparently , someone called Harry Kellerman has been phoning people up about George , and giving him ‘ the bad mouth all over town ’ . |
| 3 | She had been phoning people who might go to Greece with her or drive her there or , failing that , pay her air-fare , and eventually she succeeded in getting a loan from an aunt and an offer of a place in a minibus from an old schoolfellow and her boyfriend . |
| 4 | ‘ Sergeant , ’ said Alice , ‘ had someone been phoning Mary ? |
| 5 | Another fruitful configuration has been rotating Couette flow ( Section 17.5 ) . |
| 6 | McCaw has been pursuing LIN since June , and some analysts had expected it to raise its bid in wake of the merger agreement with Bell South , the regional telephone utility based in Atlanta , Georgia . |
| 7 | We have been pursuing proposals for some time . |
| 8 | Men have been pursuing North Uist sea-trout for hundreds of years and the island is rich in sites of archaeological interest ; brilliantly described by Dr Erskine Beveridge in his definitive book , North Uist : its Archaeology and Topography , published in 1911 . |
| 9 | Guest of honour was Pat Moody , a member of a local team of people who took aid to the orphanage and helped to refurbish it in May last year and have been charting progress there ever since . |
| 10 | She knew Penny had not been raiding apples , but she had n't convinced Farmer Bolsover of it . |
| 11 | Studios have been raiding network archives , and versions of everything from The Flintstones , Bewitched , The Beverly Hillbillies and Car 54 , Where Are You to The Fugitive and The Saint are apparently in development . |
| 12 | Thieves have been raiding washing lines in Ripon . |
| 13 | He had , over many weeks , been siphoning petrol from a garage owner 's tank and lorries ; and the owner had , on this particular weekend , diluted the tank with water . |
| 14 | ‘ I went on to a party in Cambridge after I 'd been catching swifts , and in the middle of the party a horrible large green thing , a flightless parasitic fly , found on swifts , crawled crabwise out of my hair on to my dinner jacket — it was a dinner jacket sort of party . |
| 15 | The crews knew them as Spivs , and initially their speed was such that a driver complained : ‘ I 've been catching seagulls with that thing ! ’ |
| 16 | Nicolette 's fusion of banging bass and meandering , torchy vocals — spiced with American blues and African music influences — has been impressing people since she was signed by north London 's Shut Up And Dance in 1990 . |
| 17 | Maura had been seeing Terry for nearly five months , and miraculously had managed to keep him a secret . |
| 18 | ‘ Been seeing Rose Hilaire ? ’ |
| 19 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 20 | Because he 'd been seeing psychiatrists since 1950 he fancied he was an expert on Freud and wanted to sit in on all our discussions . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's been seeing Jessie and ’ — she bowed her head — ‘ she 's going to have a baby . ’ |
| 22 | Then , and so then but I have n't been seeing Mrs . |
| 23 | Seems she 's been seeing Mr Marumba for a few months . |
| 24 | ‘ She has been seeing James recently but she still loves Marco , ’ said Mrs Butcher . |
| 25 | Mr Hartley , in his final year studying community arts at Newcastle , had been seeing Miss Harrison for about a year . |
| 26 | Joanne Morse , 18 , had been seeing Osborne weeks before the killing . |
| 27 | Then on Easter Sunday Pringle confronted best pal Jason Ward , 20 , with the suggestion that he had been seeing Leanne . |
| 28 | He had been seeing Molly on and off for about six months . |
| 29 | Kay Evans who has been seeing Molly regularly in hospital gave us up-to-date new of her . |
| 30 | All day I have been seeing pictures of him at his best ; jumbled up in no chronological sequence — Saturday evening tram rides and visits to the Hippodrome with late supper afterwards in Malvern days , earlier days of ‘ where do you want to go to ’ in the study … the ‘ Well , boys this is grand ’ at the beginning of the holiday … his little drop of whiskey : his fund of wheezes . |