Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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1 | But of course , th , I 'd been living at The Haven then , next to the butcher 's shop . |
2 | ‘ Before I burst through that door , I 'd been listening at the window — I distinctly recall that he was refusing to say anything really damning . |
3 | ‘ I had been looking at the world ratings and the draw certainly is n't what I had expected , ’ said Gregg . |
4 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
5 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
6 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
7 | " I 've been looking at the cat in your window . " |
8 | I 've been looking at the knives again . |
9 | ‘ I 've been looking at the basin where the sewage tank used to be . ’ |
10 | IN view of all the talk about a resumption of political talks , I 've been looking at the last word of the Ulster Unionists on the subject , delivered just before the plug was pulled last October . |
11 | I did n't see it , I 've been working at the office . |
12 | ‘ I 've been working at the restaurant for three years and I like it there . |
13 | I 've been playing at the classes for around 40 years . |
14 | AS a third part of a nanny share I have been looking at the law and the availability of Liability Insurance . |
15 | I have been looking at the following : two very ‘ liquid ’ liquid acrylics are Winsor & Newton Designer 's Liquid Acrylic Colours and the new ACP ArtistColour Professional by Rotring . |
16 | I have been looking at the Opposition amendment . |
17 | I have been looking at the Labour party document for health in Scotland , ’ A |
18 | I have been looking at the wares offered at spring seminars by the Folger Institute , a consortium of 29 universities , with Yale and Princeton in , but Harvard out . |
19 | I have been working at the playgroup in Middleton St George for about seven years now , and I 've been the leader for about two . |
20 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
21 | She had been looking at the castle for the last hour . |
22 | She had been working at the Hopeland missionary camp , helping educate teenage boys . |
23 | It reminded Jane of one of the Professor Branestawm stories she had read as a child in which the characters were photographs come alive , each repeating , over and over again , the sentence he or she had been saying at the moment the photograph was taken . |
24 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |
25 | You will also receive half your husband 's graduated pension and all of his additional pension if he contributed to SERPS , so long as this would not take your pension above the maximum you could have had if you had been earning at the upper earnings limit throughout . |
26 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
27 | We 've been looking at the contrasting features of these two . ’ |
28 | So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies . |
29 | We 've been knocking at the door in four defeats . |
30 | For the past hour we had been standing at the top of a Norfolk heath in swirling snow . |