Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv prt] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience . |
2 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
3 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
4 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
5 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
6 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
7 | Er , you 've been fiddling about at the back where it breaks yeah , did you tell Ken ? |