Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [been] [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 2 | And when you were in suitably softened mood I was going to tell you how this time I 'd found what I 'd really been looking for all my life . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 4 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 5 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 6 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |
| 7 | If the river had still been working with any serious use of its productive capacity , this presentation of delightful monuments would not have been possible . |
| 8 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |
| 9 | If we had simply been moving to another site we would just roll everything up and take it with us . |