Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How can you tell what 's been eating into him for all that time ? ’ |
| 2 | She had been resting against his trunk and now he could see what had happened to it . |
| 3 | They will think I have been collaborating with you or something ’ |
| 4 | He had been toying with her that day on the river , playing games to satisfy some peculiar quirk of his character . |
| 5 | Like a cat with its prey , Microsoft has been toying with its competition , threatening to hang a predatory $100 introductory price on the stuff . |
| 6 | Like a cat with its prey , Microsoft has been toying with its competition , threatening to hang a predatory $99 introductory price on the stuff ( UX No 413 ) . |
| 7 | Luke was in command and this time instinct told Robyn there would be no withdrawal , no respite from his sexual onslaught , from the tension that had been building between them since the very first moment . |
| 8 | Two days later , the most beautiful bloom burst forth which appeared to mimic a flow 3D diagram Margaret had been producing on her computer ! |
| 9 | Over his face quivered shades of the sniggers he had just been enjoying with his mates . |
| 10 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 11 | ‘ Let's hope this is the last chapter for them — it has been hanging over them for more than a year — and they can now start to rebuild their lives . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ This has been hanging over us for too long . |
| 13 | The prospect had been hanging over us for so many months that once Father ceased trading , it was as though the weight of worry was lifted . |
| 14 | But after that Pete had sworn that he 'd touch nothing stronger than tapwater for the rest of the evening , and so far he 'd been sticking to it . |
| 15 | A more carefully prepared training programme and an easier tournament schedule have helped the world No.2 to win three important tournaments in recent months , whereas Le Moignan appears to have been struggling with her motivation . |
| 16 | I have been struggling with my marriage for years largely because of my mood swings . |
| 17 | Merson does n't hide the fact that he has been struggling with his weight . |
| 18 | On the landing , she led the way to the small room she had been using as her office . |
| 19 | At 07.30 , the Allied artillery , which for the previous 65 minutes had been firing at its greatest intensity , lifted . |
| 20 | The woman behind the counter had been gazing at her through strong spectacles and now scratched doubtfully at her moustache with a thumb-nail . |
| 21 | Morant , Chambers and others were aware that for ten years or more several LEAs including Sheffield , Nottingham , Wigan , Liverpool , Carlisle , Finchley , Bolton , Cambridge , and Edinburgh had been experimenting with their own employment schemes . |
| 22 | The bank has been experimenting with it for seven years , but , this year , 100 branches will come on stream . |
| 23 | And to think he 'd been agonizing about what line to take on Bartocci 's conspiracy theory ! |
| 24 | ’ You have n't been confiding in him , have you ? ’ |
| 25 | It was as though an extraordinary story — a great mythology , with half-forgotten legends , languages and lore — had been unfolding in his head from the time he began to think ; and his appreciation of the Old Literature was at the deepest level imaginative and creative . |
| 26 | How many of these songs could she have been singing to her daddy ? |
| 27 | I have been singing for his lordship of Leicester . |
| 28 | Her cousins and servants had been fussing over her since dawn , and the heat in the cathedral was oppressive . |
| 29 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 30 | But the odd tension which had been nagging at him seemed to be increasing . |