Example sentences of "[pron] have been [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She is certainly not one of those who have been living on mung beans for as long as they can remember . |
| 9 | She 's been living on borrowed time for a long while . |
| 10 | Over the last few issues we 've been focusing on minor scales and their application . |
| 11 | Recently we have been working on other corpora , including a 26-million word corpus , much larger than the LOB Corpus , but more restricted , in that it consists of newspaper reports . |
| 12 | ‘ Recently he has been working on American films and he was very keen to get back home and work with some of his old mates . |
| 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 . |