Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I hope councillor has n't been puzzling about this question because I think she should have had adequate warning erm the cycling part of working party was agreed by city board on the ninth of on the seventh of December is to come to an end and such work has er relates to cycling within a new transport working party . |
| 2 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 3 | Opinion : ‘ … it will not be known until Sizewell B has been operating for some years whether the PWR will become the established nuclear option that has been sought for 30 years . ’ |
| 4 | Ah 'm worn to a frazzle fighting off the toffs that have been swarming round this door since she was nine and three quarters . |
| 5 | I just said , goodness , I said we 've been waiting for this parcel since before Christmas and he says oh have you duck . |
| 6 | I know he 's been doing to this man as he 's gone past so Harry sitting there the not saying you know . |
| 7 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 8 | He has been working in this vein since the late Sixties , when only hippies , greens and cranks thought it was important . |