Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [pers pn] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trouble is with this quarter , with this discount I 'm probably not going to get to a hundred pound at the office because I 've been using it at home so much . |
| 2 | I had been singing it at Bayreuth so they came to me . ’ |
| 3 | I take it you have n't been keeping her at home and just not sent a note ? |
| 4 | perhaps the Company 's lack of comment on its own future , which must increasingly have been worrying them at the turn of the century . |
| 5 | It 's interesting that if you have a machine wrapping biscuits at 50 a minute and it is increased to 70 a minute , the operators who have been doing it at 50 find it very difficult to adapt , but the new operators who come in at 70 cope with it easily . |
| 6 | I thought — if it had been my parents who had been talking , they would have been doing it at the tops of their voices , for surely on the content alone that conversation had been a row . |
| 7 | He 's costing me a fortune in tights — I wondered who 'd been taking them at first . |
| 8 | This hip had been paining me at times again , but while we were in Wales it decided to play up properly . |
| 9 | He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again . |
| 10 | The vendor of these two pictures had previously consigned them to Thomas Gibson who had been offering them at considerably higher prices . |