Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] on [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this point , a young woman who 'd been sitting on one of Bridget 's sofas jumped angrily to her feet and shouted at Geoffrey . |
| 2 | There was no law , strictly speaking , against experimenting , although considering the stage which Alexei 's trials had reached , it was clear that he must have been working on this for some time . |
| 3 | It had been running on unheard for some time , in any case . |
| 4 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 5 | I was in a French class at school when I picked up a copy of the magazine , which had been lying on one of the tables . |
| 6 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 7 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
| 9 | Members may well be aware of , of some of the actions that the A T C have been taking on this , and have been calling on that to actually look at that to list of alternate . |
| 10 | So far we have established that major changes have been going on both in the UK economy as a whole and in its geography . |
| 11 | I have an overwhelming feeling that these dances which have been going on unchanged for hundreds , perhaps thousands of years , are truer to the ‘ âme collective ’ than our restless , critical , self-obsessed quadrilles . |