Example sentences of "[noun pl] have been [v-ing] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes had been feeding on darkness and projections for too long , and now , presented with solid reality , they were befuddled . |
| 2 | Paramedics have been travelling on emergency ambulances in Oxfordshire since the 1970s . |
| 3 | Thus far , the pundits have been betting on Stacker being included in the MSDOS 6 package , since a bundle with DOS 5.0 happened . |
| 4 | While Dutch administrators have been working on plans to transfer part of the former Daf into a new company known as New Daf , it is not yet known if the rescue package will help save jobs at the five Leyland Daf plants in Britain . |
| 5 | ‘ It is as much as the Soviet Union has been spending on vodka , as much as US companies have been spending on advertising cigarettes , or 10 per cent of the EC 's annual subsidy to its farmers . ’ |
| 6 | All these trees had been growing on peat do you see , and the peat was dry . |
| 7 | And the wives had been living on credit to the grocer in the village . |
| 8 | A couple of scientists had been working on Edgeøya for most of the summer , and this young bear had appeared near the old trapper 's hut they were staying in ( which was near the beach where we had landed ) . |
| 9 | Members have been working on designs for an antipollution poster . |
| 10 | ‘ The criminals have been concentrating on sheds , outhouses and garages and taking bikes , lawnmowers and garden equipment , ’ the crime prevention officer at Antrim Road explained . |
| 11 | Police announced that youths posing as charity collectors have been knocking on doors in Liverpool asking for money for the James Bulger Appeal . |
| 12 | SECRET service agents HAVE been snooping on Princess Diana and other members of the Royal Family , The People can reveal . |
| 13 | The shares have been soaring on hopes that the rate rises would go through , and Nippon Telegraph & Telephone Corp is likely to get some of the local rate increases it is seeking , Minister of Posts and Telecommunications Junichiro Koizumi told Reuters : the company wants to raise rates across the board , but the hikes are likely to be granted only for pay telephones , not for households or businesses . |