Example sentences of "the [noun sg] have [be] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie remembered how the building had been rocking on its foundations . |
| 2 | The princess has been calling on the skills of an astrologer in the region for the past three and a half years . |
| 3 | The faculty has been focusing on the main issues affecting freight into the next century . |
| 4 | I would have thought the mo Without knowing anything about it I would have thought the most likely explanation for that is that that the property company who own the precinct have suggested to the Council that they would like to buy the Market Hall and the Council have been sitting on it and pondering it and some bright spark has come up with the idea , Yes you can buy the Market Hall if you also buy Pembroke Hall . |
| 5 | The mother-of-three had been sunbathing on the hottest day of 1990 . |
| 6 | Sport now — and the sun has been shining on Pakistan 's cricketers at New Road this afternoon . |
| 7 | THE CAT 'S BEEN SLEEPING ON IT ALL AFTERNOON ! |
| 8 | A man in a dark suit across the aisle had been working on business papers since New York . |
| 9 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 10 | The rain had been beating on him for hours , on him and his comrades , not only here but wherever they had been when they met their deaths ; their clothes , their very hair , had a flattened , dead look . |
| 11 | ‘ So far ’ , Iain Anderson reports , ‘ the group has been concentrating on gathering information on the courses available in the SCOTVEC and SEB systems to attempt to produce clear advice to teachers and pupils on the ‘ pathways ’ through the various options . |
| 12 | The SDIO has been concentrating on limited ground-based systems . |
| 13 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 14 | The cursor will be returned to its original size and moved to a point just outside where the highlight had been depending on the key tapped . |
| 15 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 16 | The cast and crew of The Viking had been filming on location and , finding herself for once with little to do , she 'd taken a break to watch the great Dane Jacobsen in action . |
| 17 | Yes , and certainly people who live inside it , because the book 's been sitting on my desk all week and I can see it 's been opened at places where people are either living or they know people living . |
| 18 | The couple had been lying on it . |
| 19 | For its part Thames Water welcomed the report , but spokesman Tom Curtin says the company 's been acting on the sorts of things it 's recommended for some time . |