Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake . |
| 2 | It is also particularly difficult to discover your place in a speech after you have been looking up at the audience . |
| 3 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 4 | She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me . |
| 5 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 6 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 7 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 8 | She must have been staying there at the weekend ! |
| 9 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , specialist retailers like Dixons , an electricals chain , and niche shops like Tie Rack have been paring away at the department stores ' share of the high-street market . |
| 11 | They had been sitting together at the top of their organisations throughout the years of cut-backs . |
| 12 | Er , you 've been fiddling about at the back where it breaks yeah , did you tell Ken ? |
| 13 | Mr Brumhill had been working late at the shop on Wellingborough Road , something he often did . |
| 14 | Mr Brumhill had been working late at the shop on Wellingborough Road , something he often did . |
| 15 | Concern has been mounting recently at the potential for unnecessary duplication of its activities with those of the Association of Railway Preservation Societies ( ARPS ) . |
| 16 | CGI 's most visible asset is the Pacbase software engineering product , which is sold around the world — but has n't IBM been hammering away at the software engineering anvil for the past five years at no inconsiderable cost in both money and resources with AD/Cycle … |