Example sentences of "have [been] [v-ing] at [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 2 | Thus , it is to sectoral differences that we now turn , to illustrate how change has been occurring at different rates and with different implications for governments . |
| 3 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 4 | That creature must have been travelling at 60 miles per hour . |
| 5 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 6 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 7 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 8 | I tried to look pleased when she told me that Prentice had been ringing at half-hourly intervals since mid-afternoon and had left a multiple-choice list of numbers where I could get him that evening . |
| 9 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 10 | Mr Campbell said that during the first incident , when Mr Friel and the two younger accused had been shouting at each other in the shopping centre , the lawyer had struck the 15-year-old on the face with the dog leash . |
| 11 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 12 | Shortly before the February 1992 meeting it had been reported that OPEC production in January had been running at 24,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , about 70,000 bpd above the level in December 1991 and the highest levels since the 25,000,000 bpd recorded in 1980 . |
| 13 | Presumably , after carrying out their assignments , they had been returning at irregular intervals and were now preparing their reports for the final session of the afternoon . |
| 14 | Booker had been working at Liberal News and , after receiving a letter from Usborne , whose proto-satirical magazine Mesopotamia at Oxford had centred around Foot , Ingrams , and John Wells , the product hit the streets or rather those streets in South Kensington to which Andrew Osmond , another Oxford contemporary , chose to distribute it . |
| 15 | About 700 men had been working at three pit levels up to 560 metres below the ground , over a 2 sq km area . |
| 16 | Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover . |
| 17 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 18 | In this chapter we 've been looking at two novels which , though they both contain their own particular stylistic innovations , nevertheless stick to the recognised , traditional shape of the novel . |
| 19 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |
| 20 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |
| 21 | ‘ Considering that we have been looking at 30,000 job losses a year recently , this could be the worst year ever . |
| 22 | Dr Briggs and Richard Fortey ( of London 's Natural History Museum ) have been looking at new ways of classifying the various arthropods in the Burgess . |
| 23 | But what is more surprising is not that mechanised transport has had its fair share of false starts but that since the oil crisis many planners have been looking at abandoned forms of transport . |
| 24 | But something about your comments worries me a great deal , and that 's the fact that many women tutors , you say , have been looking at this issue , but they have n't looked at the major part of the issue , which is from the students ' perspectives and the problem that goes on between students . |
| 25 | After all , the Central Council of Physical Recreation — of which the Duke is president — and the Sports Council , the two most powerful bodies in British sport , have been sniping at each other for years . |
| 26 | Case law changes have been coming at frequent intervals , particularly those affecting liability for disclosing defects in house construction . |
| 27 | If you have been working at extreme depth and then call a halt do n't block the holes up . |
| 28 | We have been working at improving race relations in Britain for over 30 years , under successive Governments . |
| 29 | And I 'd just like to take the opportunity to er emphasise the point that I have been making at this E I P that erm r regional migration from the West Yorkshire is reducing and we do n't want to create a magnet which reverses that trend . |
| 30 | Then the really hard part is persuading the public to listen , because the last thing they want to believe is that the charlatan in the white coat is n't going to give them a cure for cancer , a promise he 's been renewing at regular intervals for the past two hundred years . |