Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er we left at er seventeen minutes to two erm having explained that er we have put a very respectable budget on the table er which was prudence as prudence personified er and that was something we felt the other two groups of the Liberal Democrats were the only ones there at the time er besides them do that we 'd er I have to say to chairman that er the voted it is now being cobbled together er by the other two groups is eight hundred thousand pounds plus er in excess of the budget which the Conservative Group would want to see and just for the record , it 's about the same sum of money that we 've been saving on the fire cover in |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been living on odd bits and pieces , ’ he says , ‘ as well as the proceeds of my first novel . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 've been living on salad , fish and fresh air to be at my lightest for this , but it was well worth it . |
| 4 | And for the last 3 days , they 've been living on the food they 'd planned to give to the children . |
| 5 | ‘ They 've been feeding on waste from the labs . |
| 6 | We 've been acting on a |
| 7 | Anyway erm we 've been hearing on this programme recently of course that er people are against hunting against fishing er they say it 's cruel . |
| 8 | All this week we 've been reporting on the work in South America of Oxfam , which this year marks its fiftieth anniversary . |
| 9 | No they 're not but they 've been getting on all right really . |
| 10 | know b what I 've been getting on Friday and Saturday night was an awfully big |
| 11 | This has further emphasized to ourselves with , I accept our reading of the draft of P P G thirteen , and also more work we 've been doing on land in the city , and on the potential traffic implications in particular of further growth outside the ring road . |
| 12 | ‘ I hope you do n't feel I 've been spying on you . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ While you 've been sitting on your intellectual arses alternately pitying yourselves and the so-called workers , it 's my hard work , my money that 's been keeping this country — ’ Stalking off indoors ; the door shuts . |
| 14 | Now that was about two weeks ago and I 've been sitting on it meaning to , to write to the press and say how disgusting it was . |
| 15 | So we 've been starting on the , but this is a bit of a shame though because , what I like , when we , when we , when we have our three days off , it 's nice to know on your , on your last day off that still have a late night because your not back to work until the afternoon you know . |
| 16 | From the air I do n't have that problem but , curiously , when I 've been shooting on the ground in China I 've relished the people everywhere . |
| 17 | Like the grave-diggers in Hamlet , they speculated on life : ‘ We 've been working on it for 25 years and we still have n't got round . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 19 | I 've been working on her image for some time now . |
| 20 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 21 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |
| 22 | The bird has become very unfit , and the damaged wing is shorter than the other , so I 've been working on moving it in the way the bird would move it in flight , to stretch it . |
| 23 | We 've been working on the Panch Chule expedition for a year , but it 's just the odd day basically . |
| 24 | I 've got three people working on it right now and they 've been working on it for three years . |
| 25 | We 've been working on the project for quite some time . |
| 26 | It looks as if we 'll be able to buy the Stiebel-Stein mail-order business , so I 've been working on ways to raise the money . |
| 27 | I 've been working on it for most of the week , so do n't make me mess it up . |
| 28 | They 've been working on farms , it seems . ’ |
| 29 | I knew those had been painted over ten years before , I said to him , ‘ Is this an old painting or a new painting ? ’ and he said , ‘ Well , I 've been working on it . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |