Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] be [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 2 | Donna saw the exhibit her sister had been looking at and crossed to it . |
| 3 | Indeed if both the missile and its antidote have been improving at the same rate , we can expect that the latest , most advanced and sophisticated versions , and the earliest , most primitive and simplest versions will be exactly as successful as each other , against their contemporary counter-devices . |
| 4 | During this time , Liz had taken much of the responsibility for the day-to-day running of the business , while her mother had been staying at home to look after her husband who was in poor health . |
| 5 | All this time his friend has been tugging at my shoulder . |
| 6 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 7 | For a decade our groups have been staying at his home in a village above Imlil , the base for Jbel Toubkal , the alluring highest peak in the country , conveniently sited on the horizon south of Marrakech . |
| 8 | Our problem had been landing at all . |