Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 3 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | MI6 , the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) , began life in 1911 under the control of the Foreign Office , which had been spying on other countries for over 400 years . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 8 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 9 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 10 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |
| 11 | John Mercer [ q.v. ] persuaded him to contact William Gossage [ q.v. ] , who had been experimenting on similar lines , and in 1859 Hargreaves joined Gossage 's soap works . |
| 12 | ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons . |
| 13 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 14 | It had been running on unheard for some time , in any case . |
| 15 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |