Example sentences of "[vb base] [been] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right some of our speakers are retires I I 've been retired quite a number of years , as you 'll have noticed I give the talk on income tax and I 'm a retired tax inspector . |
| 2 | Any daily spread , you 've been given here a two page per day dairy . |
| 3 | Well , I 've been hearing quite a lot about timeshare recently . |
| 4 | We 've been averaging over a quarter of a million customers a week and an indicative of this is that recently in the last week , we 've just opened an additional three thousand car parking spaces to take our grand total up to twelve thousand spaces . |
| 5 | I understand from Valerie — I 've been seeing quite a lot of Valerie , as I think she 's indicated — that you were visiting your husband today . |
| 6 | You 've been doing quite a bit with things that add up to ten have n't you and you 've been doing things like seven add three comes to ten and three add seven can you read my figures ? |
| 7 | ‘ I 've been losing quite a lot of weight since I came to Hochhauser . |
| 8 | I understand you 've been socializing quite a lot with the Italians over the last twenty four hours or so . |
| 9 | And , of course , he 's so revered for this sleight-of-hand that he 's constructed a two and a half hour show to appeal mainly to his legions of cultish disciples who 've been waiting quite a few years for him to make sense again . |
| 10 | ‘ But , Joe , I 've been apprenticed nearly a year now , and I 've never thanked her ! ’ |
| 11 | ‘ They 've been meetin' here a few nights a week for the past year , have n't they ? ’ |
| 12 | The engineering unions have been seeking either a 35-hour week or a two-hour reduction . |
| 13 | I suppose I have been thinking rather a lot lately about my reluctance to stick a label on myself politically — as a lesbian . |
| 14 | " Well , " he said , " we think we lose a lot of aircraft , because we have been monitoring quite a — few they just disappear from the radar screen 50 miles off the coast , sometimes more , sometimes halfway across the sea if they are making a dash far Flamborough Head . |
| 15 | ‘ I never thought it would happen to me , but I have been left quite a large sum in a will . |
| 16 | Over the past week you have been walking away a minimum of 300 calories a day during your walk , and your increased metabolic rate will have been burning up another few hundred calories when you have finished walking . |
| 17 | The girls who play Christina and Caroline in Neighbours have been putting together an album . |
| 18 | I have been practising quite a lot in training . |
| 19 | I have been confined almost a year by the dislocation of one of the ankle-bones of my leg , so have not been able to get as far as the Society House , but have enclosed the shilling you was so kind as to pay for a letter from Monsieur du Hamel . |
| 20 | My guess is that most have been discarded once an aircraft goes out of service , or even worse , confined to the skip when a travel agent or airline goes out of business . |