Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adj] the " in BNC.

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1 I said I 've been phoning all the time , I said , and I still do n't know about it !
2 ‘ I guess you 've been seeing all the sights , same as we have ?
3 Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding .
4 The newspaper industry would be just as hard hit … and they 've been using all the means at their disposal to wage war with the Chancellor .
5 Have you been using that the whole day ?
6 In brief , the four regions of the South have been absorbing all the ( admittedly rather limited ) national increase in population and have been pulling in people from the rest of Britain .
7 There are no easy answers but If you have not already been applying all the techniques listed in this book when applying for jobs you should find that a methodical approach is more productive than previous haphazard applications .
8 Who 's been tooling all the parts ?
9 It has been happening all the time and , with respect to the hon. Gentleman , it has been happening constantly .
10 Been waiting all the morning for a bit of attention from my only daughter , not much for a sick mother to ask , is it ? ’
11 I 've been here three years now and it 's been improving all the time .
12 erm He 's been improving all the time erm and I think he could be a live erm candidate for the outright winner , so that 's the third leg of the yankee .
13 But I found at Herald and Post the actual reporters have only been meeting and I 've been sending all the erm all the paper work to Harlow and Bishop 's Stortford , but they 're just sort of the erm , the advertising people so erm , that 's why we 've not had anything in the papers .
14 We 've er , he 's just been getting all the photos stuck down on those cards .
15 And I 've been getting all the
16 Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit .
17 I 've been doing all the routine things a podiatrist would do . ’
18 And tell me what you 've been doing all the week
19 Why has everything suddenly become she you 've only been doing this the last few days .
20 He was dead to the world , so deeply asleep that she wondered what on earth he could have been doing half the night .
21 I 've been attending all the lectures that deal with building up a practice ; I 've learnt a lot and I 'm convinced it 's possible . ’
22 No doubt the Duchess , like George Eliot 's readers , would have possessed her own copy of Dorothea 's sourcebook : ‘ I have been examining all the plans for cottages in Loudon 's book , and picked out what seem the best things , ’ she tells Sir James .
23 Has that been recording all the time ?
24 I , she 's been ripping all the newspaper .
25 ‘ You 've been asking all the questions , and I 've done my best to answer them .
26 Violet — her hot tears tumbled ; she had been crying all the while , since she had first seen the razor and — felt like kissing her .
27 ‘ She 's been crying all the time .
28 ‘ That 's what he 's been saying all the time , ’ said Len .
29 Well some people have been talking about five to seven years , I 've been saying all the way through that we 're very flexible on this , and clearly if erm a bidder whether it 's a management buy out with other people in the bid , others in the consortium , or an outright bid from a private sector consortium er if if they get the franchise and make clear that that 's on the basis that they 're going to put a lot of money into the capital investment , then clearly they will want a longer period and we have made that clear .
30 That 's what you 've been saying all the time this sort of bank lending 's been going on have n't you ?
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