Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dalai Lama , the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people , has been living in exile at Dharamsala , India , since 1959 . |
| 2 | Rather , there has been feeling of surprise at just how much energy the ideologists of the Soviet regime expended in the fight against what was then known as ‘ anti-Soviet ’ art . |
| 3 | If the City chairman had sacked Mel Machin to bring in a John Bond or Malcolm Allison then heads really would have been shaking in wonderment at another Peter Swales masterstroke . |
| 4 | Many young men were attracted to the profession of arms for its own sake , and the excitement and glory of successful war were reasons in themselves for service , but some at least of those who engaged with a captain may have been responding to pressures at home and in the local economy rather than to the material incentives that war offered . |
| 5 | Among them was John Ingram , who said that he and others had been drinking with Drew at 1.35pm that lunchtime , and that Drew had mentioned going to Cross Street to get a paper . |
| 6 | Bream , who had been adopted by Mrs Margaret Bream before she married the guitarist , had been drinking with friends at local pubs on the day of the killing . |
| 7 | Throughout the 1920s , small banks had been failing in America at a rate of hundreds a year : in 1926 , for example , 976 banks out of 28,350 collapsed . |
| 8 | Eight detainees at Oukacha prison in Casablanca , on hunger strike since Nov. 26 , were on Dec. 25 granted their demands for political prisoner status , the right to family visits and the right to read newspapers ; their families had been fasting in support at the offices of the Moroccan Union of Labour . |
| 9 | He had been appearing on television at the time . |
| 10 | I 've been going to bed at half past one and I was doing the T M A for two nights , then I 've been doing his V A T for two nights so I 've got to bed really really late and I just and , the thing is , the T M A were all on about my then I just start to relax I had to resort to herbal knockout drops . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been coming to games at the Manor since I was 10 … not every week like but since three seasons ago I have n't missed a match — I 've been to them all . |
| 12 | Meanwhile Oxford University have been struggling against Nottinghamshire at the Parks.The visitors declared at two hundred and twenty four ( 224 ) for four . |
| 13 | Derek says … they 've broken a few boats in testing … they 've been building prototypes for the last six months and have been putting in hours at sea to make sure everything is right |
| 14 | Foreigners suffering poverty , but not political persecution , have been flocking to Germany at a rate of 400,000–500,000 a year . |
| 15 | night he 's been going to bed at ten , eleven o see that was quarter past ten last night before you went |