Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 2 | You 've just been seeing too many films . |
| 3 | During the 20th century the average person in Western society has been eating too much fat and too little fibre . |
| 4 | Clerk of the course Nick Lees said : ‘ It has been raining heavily all day and we had no option but to abandon the meeting . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ In the concreted yard at the back of the flats at Water Eaton Road stood a light-weight , rubber-wheeled , aluminium wheelbarrow which one of the maintenance men had been using earlier that day . |
| 6 | But yesterday , as she nursed the baby she had been praying so many years for , she said : ‘ I never gave up hope . ’ |
| 7 | They had been conversing easily all afternoon . |
| 8 | Mr Haynes explained that the earlier surge in borrowings , which had peaked at £5.2m in December 1990 , had arisen because the company had been publishing too many books on the general publishing side ( as opposed to the car and motor cycle manuals which are Haynes ' core activity ) . |
| 9 | During the past decade the poverty stricken countries of the South have been paying far more money to the rich North than they have been receiving in new money . |
| 10 | Ok , we ve not been scoring too many goals , but the performances for EVERY MATCH ( barring MAYBE Norwich ) have been better than that of the opposition . |
| 11 | Should we not first see how this or should we say , look let's go for it now because I mean you know , we 've been going now some years , what another year because |
| 12 | Olive had been expecting so many horrors that hearing the question she almost laughed with relief . |
| 13 | It is precisely to deal with those problems that my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State has been having so many discussions over the past year . |
| 14 | And what had that car been doing again this morning in the Dersinghams ' drive ? |
| 15 | The Russian race , on which the competitors were accommodated on a train following the race route , proved to be a harrowing experience for Zarei , but not because he had been doing too much running . |
| 16 | Managers say Stoke Mandeville has simply been treating too many people . |
| 17 | And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant ! |
| 18 | apparently she does n't know why they sacked her she said , they sacked apparently something to do with she 'd been asking too many questions or something and but she |
| 19 | It was n't jerky , just a little unsettling , and Maxim might not have been asking so many questions if he 'd been able to sit back and watch the countryside flow past . |
| 20 | If it had n't have been for her I would n't have been taking so many exams . |
| 21 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 22 | I 've , I 've just been reading here some books that I 've got upstairs , and stuff , and I I I went to see one of erm Shakespeare 's erm , I went to see a Midnight Summer 's Dream |
| 23 | They 've been reading too much space fiction . |
| 24 | ‘ I think you 've been reading too many thrillers , Superintendent . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ You 've been reading too many Sunday supplements . ’ |
| 26 | " And you 've been reading too many novels . |
| 27 | The beer he had been drinking steadily all day was now weighing heavily on his stomach . |
| 28 | And as I continued to think about how we rarely get the measure of little children , I suddenly realized why they 'd been making so much din . |
| 29 | Topix Abteilungsrechner & Workstations magazine reports that an announcement regarding the B20 , on which Siemens Nixdorf has been pinning so many hopes , was planned originally for the autumn . |
| 30 | You 've been playing too much football |