Example sentences of "[noun] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , he wondered indignantly , had Olga been thinking of to countenance this ? |
| 2 | Hello , well what 's your mum been doing to you this morning ? |
| 3 | Doubts about Communist motives in Spain would have been submerged under the general enthusiasm for the Republic , had not doubts about Soviet Communism been growing at the same time . |
| 4 | Only this week , Lord Chief Justice Taylor been commenting on the need to look at sentencing and I think this case highlights that need is very , very urgent indeed . |
| 5 | So why have the people of Lauchhammer been complaining of headaches for years , whenever the wind carries a column of smoke over the town ? |
| 6 | How had Fleischmann and Pons ' programme been progressing since September ? |
| 7 | It is strange therefore that the signal box instruments revealed it as clear , the signal must have been at green , or had a heavy weight been lying across the signal wire ? |
| 8 | As a result of this , Palmer had in the back of his mind been thinking about muon catalysed fusion , and when the newly arrived Jones announced his talk , Palmer naturally took notice and went along to listen . |
| 9 | Has Richard been looking after you ? ’ |
| 10 | It marked the end of the Croatian Republic as a semi-autonomous nation and the final victory of Tito 's Communists in the civil war which had in effect been raging in Yugoslavia since 1941 . |
| 11 | Has n't that campaign been going for |
| 12 | What types of chemical energy have we got in the system you 've , you 've juts been talking about ? |
| 13 | And erm how long has this shop been going for ? |
| 14 | I find the French development encouraging , for I have myself for years been experimenting with whisky in the cooking pots . |
| 15 | " Hanslick and others " had indeed found it difficult to place Wagner 's achievements , and furthermore Wagner 's own explicit interpretation of his ideal had in recent years been shifting in an enigmatic way that impelled his articulate young admirer to offer his own clarification : here was one of those " aesthetic problems " which had been occupying his mind for some time . |
| 16 | Some colleges already undertake their own training of senior management staff and the Further Education Staff College at Coombe Lodge has for years been catering at the national level for the management needs of senior staff by providing residential conferences and workshops , most of which are over-subscribed . |
| 17 | In the United States , academics have for some years been engaging in what has been termed the ‘ deregulation critique ’ of the federal role in education . |
| 18 | Matisse , as has been seen , had for the past years been turning to the work of Cézanne for inspiration , and by 1906 Derain was looking at his work also , so that it was only natural that Braque , who had discovered Fauvism through them , should once again follow their example , although he was already well acquainted with Cézanne 's work . |
| 19 | Yet while there has been a concerted worldwide effort to save the larger cetaceans from agonising death by human hands , the small cetaceans have in recent years been dying in record numbers . |
| 20 | Let me continue with the United States erm example in the United States it 's a , it 's a complex government situation , has Mr been speaking to you ? |
| 21 | ‘ The chief ‘ s been asking for you for some time , Mr Wycliffe . ’ |
| 22 | Why had Adam been speaking to him ? |
| 23 | Have the Methodies been getting at you ? ’ |
| 24 | Erm how have things been going with getting lectures ? |
| 25 | Had not Sophia been standing on the front steps of the vicarage calling Faustina in , he would have taken Penelope in his arms and kissed her . |
| 26 | What likes have your sisters been spreading about me this time ? |
| 27 | How long has this man been living in the churchyard ? |
| 28 | Has that little jerker Lewis been messing with my brokers ? |
| 29 | And what 's Lizzy been saying to him , I 'd like to know ? ’ |
| 30 | What had the good physician been doing at the Tower ? |