Example sentences of "[verb] [been] [v-ing] at [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It becomes clear after one has been working at something for several weeks , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that one is not going to achieve what one had hoped for . |
| 2 | After a while she realised she 'd been beating at him with her fists hard enough to hurt and yet he had n't lifted a finger to stop her . |
| 3 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 4 | The woman behind the counter had been gazing at her through strong spectacles and now scratched doubtfully at her moustache with a thumb-nail . |
| 5 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 8 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 9 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 10 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
| 11 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 13 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |
| 14 | It 's been screaming at me for days , but I just could n't see it . |