Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] [adv] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presented by Michaela Strachan , the programme has been homing in on different varieties of animals and conservation projects in countries all around the world . |
| 2 | ‘ We 'd been beavering away on Imaginary for a while but we never got the success we deserved through limited resources . |
| 3 | Since our return , Holmes had been working hard on two other cases , and he had been too busy to discuss the Baskerville case . |
| 4 | I could not have cared if he had been lying out on those wild moors bleeding to death . |
| 5 | Well that 's the been the problem issue we 've been struggling through on that basis |
| 6 | ‘ I guess I 've been getting back on that horse ever since . ’ |
| 7 | In fact , women have been speaking out on this issue for some time — among them Sue Cavanagh , co-author of a report on women 's loos published by the Women 's Design Service . |
| 8 | Over the past four years , since True Confessions , I have been working more on straight drama . |
| 9 | It 's still , it 's been , in the first two months it 's been going down on last year in volume terms . |
| 10 | So they came back but of course , if it 's jus if it 's been pouring in on that bathroom ceiling again it 's , it , when I took , when Elsie called up to me , come and look at this , the bathroom ceiling was black mould ! |