Example sentences of "been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been stamping his feet impatiently in Gdansk waiting for the call to be Poland 's first non-communist president in more than 40 years . |
| 2 | Apparently , someone called Harry Kellerman has been phoning people up about George , and giving him ‘ the bad mouth all over town ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ The boys are naturally worried and they have been phoning home to find out more about the situation , ’ Mathur said . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | A woman 's been phoning your office every day : wants to speak to you . |
| 6 | ‘ Sergeant , ’ said Alice , ‘ had someone been phoning Mary ? |
| 7 | Lucy 's been phoning you regularly , right ? ’ |
| 8 | I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it ! |
| 9 | Because I recko , I reckon they must of been paid for that because Maury has n't been phoning up and saying oh you have n't paid it ! |
| 10 | Well I 've been very good I 've not been phoning anybody else |
| 11 | My Mum goes what have you been phoning Billy for ? |
| 12 | He had been weeping . |
| 13 | That hateful inspector had dragged her away , even though Ma had been weeping enough to fill a kettle . |
| 14 | She had been weeping , he could see that , but there was no chance that she would cry now because the apartment was filled with Agency staff , four men moving through the small apartment , packing the family 's belongings . |
| 15 | Claudia has been weeping . |
| 16 | It 's been weeping at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 17 | She , too , had been weeping . |
| 18 | But of Doreen there was no sign — at least not until they went inside and she emerged from her bedroom , where she had been weeping . |
| 19 | ‘ You 've been weeping . |
| 20 | Bishop Jon , a warm-hearted man , had been weeping , and even Eochaid , remembering , found himself moved near to tears . |
| 21 | Another fruitful configuration has been rotating Couette flow ( Section 17.5 ) . |
| 22 | By rights she should be sleeping the sleep of the just by now , she realised despondently as she switched on the bedside lamp — instead she 'd been reliving everything over and over in her mind . |
| 23 | Up to this point the US had been binding itself to Vietnam with conceptual associations , policy objectives , and some material considerations . |
| 24 | For example , if the existence of successor in title had been relevant , the F.C.C. 's determination would , said Lord Reid , have been binding whether right or wrong . |
| 25 | The Convention has been binding upon the United Kingdom since 1953 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The president himself has quashed rumours that Egypt has been pursuing an Arab peace initiative , and rejected the idea of any ceasefire until the Iraqis have promised to withdraw from Kuwait . |
| 28 | Hastings Borough Council had been pursuing compulsory purchase of the building but , in the light of surveyors ' reports apparently quoting costs of £2.5 million for repairs alone , made a last-minute decision against this and served a Dangerous Structures Notice instead . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | At the time of his controversial dismissal from Manchester United , the News Of The World revealed that a team of private detectives , hired by a group of businessmen closely linked to some of the club 's directors , had been pursuing The Doc for nearly two years . |