Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So then he gave them Visa , which he 'd hardly been using at all , and twenty minutes later they gave him a car . |
| 2 | Our problem had been landing at all . |
| 3 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 4 | Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm |
| 5 | He 's been looking at that erm inspiration has n't , do you know I bet it would if he made a cup of tea why was n't |
| 6 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 7 | As a way of reducing the cost , the Department of Education and Science , where the Minister for Sport presently resides , have been looking at such extreme measures as the feasibility of turning primary classrooms into temporary swimming pools . |
| 8 | For a long time now , they have n't been looking at each other . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
| 11 | Yes , I 've been , I 've been looking at this and see what I can play . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |
| 14 | I 'm influenced by street , jazz , and I 've also been looking at some African dancing ’ |
| 15 | THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market . |
| 16 | Unigram 's Tokyo bureau has been looking at some of the research work being developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co at its Tokyo Information and Communications Research Laboratory . |
| 17 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 18 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
| 20 | SUNDAY LIFE has been looking at some of the Irish people and places which get a mention in the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 21 | And are there people in class four at Stronsay school who 's been looking at some of the legends . |
| 22 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 23 | Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries . |
| 24 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 25 | Except for the few who tended , from time to time , to inconvenience the landlord by dying there , passing so imperceptibly that it sometimes went unnoticed for an hour or two , from a state which had not really been living at all . |
| 26 | How long have you been living at this address ? |
| 27 | He 's gon na find it hard as well I think , but on the other hand they have n't been communicating at all , you know , it 's not like |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Well , we had n't been wondering at all , we 'd come straight along the corridor , but of course he was speaking in a wider sense . |
| 30 | It was an untidy sort of buildup but the ball fell invitingly for on the edge of the area and who has n't been scoring at all this season finished with all the aplomb of a player who 's full of confidence . |