Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But over the last twenty years a ‘ new long-stay ’ population has been accumulating on acute psychiatric wards . |
| 2 | John Mercer [ q.v. ] persuaded him to contact William Gossage [ q.v. ] , who had been experimenting on similar lines , and in 1859 Hargreaves joined Gossage 's soap works . |
| 3 | He could have been walking on another planet The flat , moonlight illuminated landscape , interrupted by large and small pools of bright water seemed unreal . |
| 4 | What change in land use has been happening on this marginal fringe between farmscape and wildscape , as shown on the map ? |
| 5 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 6 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 7 | She 's been living on borrowed time for a long while . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 9 | A whole family employed in the Midlands engineering industry have been living on supplementary benefit for two years : the grandparents in their mid-40s , two married sons with children and a teenager living at home . |
| 10 | She is certainly not one of those who have been living on mung beans for as long as they can remember . |
| 11 | Anne had been dwelling on this , even as the queen-dowager , together with the prince , princesses and Joan , waited with a mixture of feelings — hope , doubt , impatience and irritation — for her reply . |
| 12 | So I mean she 's been waiting on that erm place down Junction Road but they , you know , we 've had nothing from . |
| 13 | I was in a French class at school when I picked up a copy of the magazine , which had been lying on one of the tables . |
| 14 | She 'd 've been lying on Spanish beaches with her eyes tight shut knowing that every Spanish boy who passed would fancy her . |
| 15 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 16 | By 1600 hours the load on PTA Sir Geraint , Which has been going on all afternoon , is complete to the Chief Officer 's satisfaction . |
| 17 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 18 | The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell . |
| 19 | And do you think , if this has been going on all the years it must have , he 's going to stop now ? |
| 20 | It 's incredible to think that it 's been going on all these years ! |
| 21 | Incredible to think that it has been going on all these years … |
| 22 | The stake out has been going on all day . |
| 23 | Preparations for the Queen 's visit to the new unit have been going on all day . |
| 24 | He 's been going on all day old boy . |
| 25 | I said I had no objections , but I would have to ask , you know , the committee if they had because she 's not a member as such , but obviously has been going on all the year . |
| 26 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 27 | So far we have established that major changes have been going on both in the UK economy as a whole and in its geography . |
| 28 | I have an overwhelming feeling that these dances which have been going on unchanged for hundreds , perhaps thousands of years , are truer to the ‘ âme collective ’ than our restless , critical , self-obsessed quadrilles . |
| 29 | Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow . |
| 30 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |