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 ? |