Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jane had indeed been hinting at the opportunity for her husband 's murder , but she could not admit as much . |
| 2 | We 've been knocking at the door in four defeats . |
| 3 | The number of workers on the land has been shrinking at the rate of nearly 20000 per year , although this has not occurred in a completely uniform fashion . |
| 4 | Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms . |
| 5 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 6 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 7 | So far we have been looking at the type of grave-clothes provided for the very wealthy . |
| 8 | Thus far I have , in the main , been looking at the problem in the context of a conflict between parents and the minor , either the minor consenting and the parents refusing consent or the minor refusing consent and the parents giving it . |
| 9 | " I 've been looking at the cat in your window . " |
| 10 | Mike Rowbottom has been looking at the history of this remarkable experiment in Christian co-operation . |
| 11 | MEANWHILE , back at the ranch , Michael Murray , a banker , Ian MacLaurin , chairman of Tesco , the TCCB accountant , Brian Downin , the promotional and marketing man , and three others , including one isolated first-class cricketer , have been looking at the structure of the first-class game and the counties ' verdict will be known by the time you read this . |
| 12 | She had been looking at the castle for the last hour . |
| 13 | Well so far we 've just been looking at the record of growth bands in this coral skeleton , but we can acquire a great deal of additional information by sampling the skeleton , and we sample the skeleton using a small drill and we can analyze the , the powders that we collect for the stabilized of oxygen . |
| 14 | A House of Commons select committee , which has been looking at the feasibility of using ‘ combined heat and power ’ ( CHP ) , last week reported that the idea is about to come into its own in Britain . |
| 15 | So this kind of erm interest in children and in whether a couple are able to have children or not is has obviously been lying at the back of his mind has n't he ? |
| 16 | It is evident that over the last hundred years or so mid realizations have been spreading at the expense of low realizations . |
| 17 | The hotel 's owner said nine Irishmen had been staying at the hotel since June , all of them apparently working as builders . |
| 18 | Adisa has been staying At the home of Michael Durgut in Kidlington , a native Bosnian . |
| 19 | Adisa has been staying At the home of Michael Durgut in Kidlington , a native Bosnian . |
| 20 | The Doctor had been staring at the ceiling for a very long time . |
| 21 | It clearly is not the case , that , we have heard from the city this morning , and in the city alone windfalls have been progressing at the rate of eighty per annum , if it was only half that rate over the next thirteen years we would see five hundred more houses , and that excludes windfalls from the rest of the Greater York area , excluding the city of York . |
| 22 | Herr Hamnett , who was but recently arrived in Vienna for the purpose of vacation , had been residing at the home of a friend , a certain Herr Sanders of Kagrant . |
| 23 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
| 24 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 25 | Peter had been sitting at the table on which there was a mug of tea and a brightly coloured magazine . |
| 26 | As the minimum economic scale of production in the assembly plant has been decreasing , it has been increasing at the level of the firm for engineering , design and marketing . |
| 27 | For the past hour we had been standing at the top of a Norfolk heath in swirling snow . |
| 28 | However , if , by the date of trial , it can be shown that the deceased 's income would have risen since his death , then the dependency will be calculated by reference to what he would have been earning at the date of trial , rather than what he in fact was earning at the date of his death . |
| 29 | That and the fact that she had managed to stir all those self-doubts that had been hovering at the back of her mind . |
| 30 | To get the clean price we subtract the interest that has been accruing at the rate of d per cent up to that day . |