Example sentences of "[vb base] been [noun] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | — Department store bosses trying to try on clothes in their fiddly little changing rooms ( you can always tell people who 've been clothes shopping they 're the ones with the bruised elbows ) ; — Town planners and architects who think steps are an interesting feature trying to get up them in a wheelchair , with a pram , or just with creaky old legs ; — Hospital consultants who make ten appointments for the same time waiting in out-patients , especially if it 's the day when there 's a dotty old lady , a whining child and an old man who coughs and spits all in the same little section ; — Weird fashion experts wearing their crazier outfits in Darlington on a rainy Monday . |
| 2 | So you 've been shit stirring . |
| 3 | They 've been ballroom dancing in Cheltenham Town Hall for 50 years now . |
| 4 | And if you 've been wind surfing and you ca n't get back , you can always hitch a lift to dry land . |
| 5 | I 've been keep thinking that . |
| 6 | I have been metal detecting now for over twenty years , and in that time have owned and tested many detectors . |
| 7 | I do n't need a pure instruction type course as I 'm a ski leader and have been ski touring in Scotland , the Lakes and the Northern Pennines . |
| 8 | Since that time , there have been changes affecting the Young Conservatives . |
| 9 | They have been jaw locking , tail shaking and they always move around the tank together . |
| 10 | On the one hand there have been reports suggesting that the vaccine can cause brain damage , albeit in a tiny minority of children and , on the other , the whooping cough epidemics in recent years have re-awakened fears of the damage the disease itself can inflict . |
| 11 | In low-risk patients there is no effect of aprotinin on graft patency ; in high-risk patients there have been reports suggesting graft occlusion in patients receiving the drug . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , there have been Garlands running that business for nearly ninety years , but it would have been run my way . ’ |
| 13 | I know you can , I have been ice skating on er the rink a few years now |
| 14 | So far we have been self supporting with most of the folks who come along donating to our needs , however we would like to make a donation to the Seventh Day Adventist Church who give us the use of their premises , gas and electricity free of charge . |
| 15 | According to Mr Stafford Smith , there have been studies showing that each execution costs $3.5 million . |
| 16 | Disk Compression/doubling — there have been rumours flying around about this facility for quite some time . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh — there have been rumours going around that the two of you had got together again . ’ |
| 18 | In the past , most of the pottery workers have been individuals working virtually unaided , and it says much for the hard work and devotion of people like John Gillam , that so much has been achieved . |
| 19 | Though people have been bungee jumping in Britain for 12 years , most notably from the Clifton suspension bridge in Bristol , it is only recently that commercial operators have begun to spring up . |
| 20 | There have been people writing in asking for her fans to stop making excuses for her . |
| 21 | A Kaolin glacier was an example of the last-named ( Lewis and Miller , 1955 ) but much more extensively used have been measurements using rainfall simulators especially in relation to erosion experiments , flumes , wave tanks and wind tunnels . |