Example sentences of "[adv] [been] [v-ing] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 2 | But to the extent that rationality continues to prevail , we have long since been submitting all codes to ‘ Be aware ’ , without noticing that this imperative is creative of values as well as destructive . |
| 3 | Although the UK market has only been contributing some £15,000 a month or so to the company 's coffers , Christoforou expects to appoint half a dozen sales staff by April and says he will be looking for the outfit to turn over £2m plus in its first year . |
| 4 | Caswell had n't only been doing some thinking , he 'd been looking up maps and timetables . |
| 5 | In the 1940s an interest in genetic studies came to the fore , although several German investigators had already been following this line for some years . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've just been brewing some coffee — I expect you 'd like a cup . |
| 7 | And we have just been noticing that Brentano , like the British empiricist , John Locke , thinks of believing , expecting , hoping , and so on , as things — Locke called them ‘ operations ’ , Brentano called them ‘ phenomena ’ — as things we perceive in ourselves . |
| 8 | All right I 've just been making some notes here . |
| 9 | Thanks so very much for getting me Bloomfield 's annotated NT , vol I. I 'm delighted to have it , and have just been spending some time revisiting a few cruces to see what explanations are offered . |
| 10 | ‘ The way you and he have just been pawing each other about just has to mean that , in your own sweet way , ’ he inserted thunderously , ‘ you 've been endorsing the fact that your affair with him is over ! ’ |
| 11 | But that was less surprising than that somebody had still been issuing such certificates in the chaos that had been Germany , just three weeks before the final surrender . |
| 12 | Mick Lovatt has also been doing some sterling work here re-equipping some of the older classics — in particular both pitches of Pierrepoint , a classic ( F7c+ , F7b+ ) have been completely rebolted . |
| 13 | Ben has also been giving those Yorkshire boys a good seeing-to with an on-sight flash of Kleptomanis ( F8a ) at the Holywood Bowl , a one-day ascent of the Yorkshire Ripper ( F8b ) at Kilnsey , and he got Magnetic Fields ( F8a/8a+ ) first red-point . |
| 14 | ‘ We in BP and Unipart have also been introducing each other to potential customers in the Ukraine and Russia . ’ |
| 15 | For the past few minutes she had not really been paying much attention to the direction and she looked round worriedly . |
| 16 | It would be easy to demonstrate , moreover , that all our judges , including those who decided our sample cases , have really been following that advice all along . |
| 17 | And here all these women was up And er the ghost was surely been performing that night . |
| 18 | Magistrates in Didcot have today been hearing more cases against non-payers of the poll tax . |
| 19 | Leonard has again been saying this week that this is likely to be his final contest . |
| 20 | I 've actually I 've actually been doing some arithmetic while you were talking |
| 21 | Billy had certainly been making some enquiries but he had been misinformed , Danny thought . |