Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 2 | Now I can not think of a single occasion over the years , my adulthood when I have been going to theatre arts events of any kind when I 've actually gone out and bought anything as a result of sponsorship of a programme I 've been looking at . |
| 3 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
| 4 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |
| 5 | Thus , this survey combined the two methods we have been looking at above . |
| 6 | In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel . |
| 7 | In this chapter we have been looking at the details of the division of labour to which Ella was referring . |
| 8 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 9 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 10 | Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries . |
| 11 | For the past hour we had been standing at the top of a Norfolk heath in swirling snow . |
| 12 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 13 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 14 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 15 | [ 5 ] How do the various pictures of God you have been looking at , and also those which you have yourself , compare with the lists in Tables 5.1 and 5.2 which most of the great world religions would agree on ? |
| 16 | You were going to look at ways of classifying the short stories you 've been looking at , when y , sort of , to look at similarities between short stories , like which ones deal with husband and wife relationships , which ones are about loneliness , I mean , use your paper , it 's it 's only there for scrap paper , you have n't got to produce something that 's gon na be pinned up on the wall . |
| 17 | The writers and compilers of the stories we have been looking at in this chapter knew that . |
| 18 | And so , le let's just conclude our our thinking and some of the things we 've been looking at , |
| 19 | The company had wanted him to transfer to London , in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school . |
| 20 | All this week we 've been looking at life inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
| 21 | This week we 've been looking at what VAT on fuel and books would mean . |
| 22 | However , like many of the theories we have been looking at , it leads to oversimplification . |
| 23 | we approximately the subject we had been looking at for some time so I approximately , nineteen eighty eight , nineteen eighty nine |
| 24 | She preached about the passover , a subject they had been studying at Bible camp , and obviously made a good impression . |
| 25 | ‘ That 's some depth they 've been working at , ’ he said . |
| 26 | Joey Bonanza paid his men pretty well , but not well enough for Jack Mahoney to be able to afford the address he 'd been living at . |
| 27 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 28 | Most large businesses have little in common with the examples we have been looking at . |
| 29 | The version of Presentations we 've been looking at is a Beta 2 release , which means that it is very close to being the final code , and it 's expected that only bug-fixes and minor cosmetic changes will take place from this point forward . |
| 30 | And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered . |