Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] on the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later at the inquest ( which he did n't attend ) , he admitted through his lawyer that he may have been driving on the wrong side of the road . |
| 2 | The mother-of-three had been sunbathing on the hottest day of 1990 . |
| 3 | For the last few years , increasing numbers of southern owners have been capitalising on the relative strength of property in the South . |
| 4 | For the first time local Labour parties were given some sense of common identity , which had been lacking on the political wing since the disaffiliation of the ILP . |
| 5 | The Yalta Repatriation agreement was the culmination of months of negotiation between the governments involved , and as the documents summarised at the end of this volume indicate [ see KPs 1–16 ] , consideration of British policy on this matter had been continuing on the highest level since the summer of 1944 . |
| 6 | He had been meditating on the parricidal theme which runs through Dymer since he was a pupil of Kirkpatrick 's . |
| 7 | The faculty has been focusing on the main issues affecting freight into the next century . |
| 8 | ‘ He has been playing on the right side and doing very well , ’ said Bingham who has always been a Black admirer . |
| 9 | If Mitzi had been sitting on the lilac branch with the squirrel yesterday ( and at this point her thoughts brought a smile to Elisabeth 's face ) , she would have overheard much to have kept her mind and tongue engaged . … |
| 10 | They had been fighting on the same side in a war which is often erroneously characterised as an ethnic conflict ; fighting for what the Serb guerrillas call the ‘ Muslim side ’ . |
| 11 | He said he had thought they had all been fighting on the German side because they had all been under a German commander when surrendering . |
| 12 | We had been talking on the National Consumer Council a bit about the lack of accountability in broadcasting , and I had also , as part of my Advisory Council work , directed and written up the first major study about adults , educational experience and needs — two and a half thousand interviews all over England and Wales . |
| 13 | A herd of cows had been standing on the other side , and Blunt watched them stampede away , fanning out like clumsy messengers with news for all parts . |
| 14 | Had not Sophia been standing on the front steps of the vicarage calling Faustina in , he would have taken Penelope in his arms and kissed her . |
| 15 | The sight of the greyish kettle beside the gas-ring , and of the yellowish mug which has been drying on the little draining-board for the last fifteen years , makes me think of tea . |
| 16 | Whilst police have been investigating the savage crime … surgeons have been opearting on the savage injuries . |
| 17 | ‘ They have been concentrating on the targetted London seats , ’ said his agent Anne Harradine . |
| 18 | My whole thinking , every waking moment should have been concentrating on the 100 metres in which I was still convinced , despite losing to Carl in Madrid earlier in the season , that I could take the gold medal . |
| 19 | This week I 've been concentrating on the serious matter of the winter wardrobe . |
| 20 | Ashley Knibb and Terry Kelloway , have been working on the K2-8 mower conditioner for three years , since they left a main grassland equipment manufacturer to set up their own company . |
| 21 | The two have been working on the wackier areas of the music biz for many years ‘ dabbling in whatever takes our fancy ’ as Jim puts it . |
| 22 | He was a friend of Mark 's — an actor friend , who had been working on the same film as Mark when he had died . |
| 23 | Yes well we I I 'd been working on the Menai Suspension Bridge repa you know , when they were rep doing the repairing like . |
| 24 | ‘ They have been working on the driving maul yet it 's not something they have been renowned for in the past . ’ |
| 25 | She had been sleeping on the same step for three nights . |