Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] over " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've been watching over this project since its inception . |
| 2 | ‘ Because I 've been thinking over what you said and … |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm not sure what good it can do but I 've been thinking over what you said about Barney Willard . |
| 4 | And this ’ — he spread an arm out — ‘ is the amateur group I 've been supporting over the past years . ’ |
| 5 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 6 | The images I 've been doing over the past few years are like great sculptures , the weather has been getting to them and they are crumbling , their faces have cracks in them . |
| 7 | That 's what I 've been doing over the last few days . ’ |
| 8 | What it means for the homes is that they 're going to have to take a what we 've been doing over the last two or three years is gradually improving the staffing levels in our elderly people 's homes , because the dependency levels in those homes are getting very high . |
| 9 | Well let's think for just a moment , you know , we 've been talking over these last three or four weeks about faith and that , erm , let's just think , perhaps and we should have done this sooner , but I du n no , it it fits in th this morning , er perhaps just what , what faith is . |
| 10 | All night he had been thinking : I 've been sleeping over Mosse 's dead body . |
| 11 | In common with many bass amplification manufacturers , Trace Elliot have been trying over the last few years to build powerful , yet compact bass gear to ease the strain on the poor bass player 's back . |
| 12 | The period of calm after the year-end 1992 figures were out of the way and digested ended with a bang this week as Wall Street woke up to what we have been flagging over the past month — that estimates for IBM Corp 's first quarter performance were far too high , and that virtually no business was being done . |
| 13 | Since then they have regularly cleaned the slate and have been laying over the slate side by side . |
| 14 | Of particular interest , given that rates of divorce have been rising over the last two decades , is whether relatives commonly provide housing for people who have separated from a married or cohabiting partner . |
| 15 | Because I am delighted to report that education standards in Wales have been rising over the last few years following the introduction of the national curriculum and our other reforms . |
| 16 | Sir , — I have been puzzling over the purpose of P. Cowan 's ‘ Democracy ’ letter . |
| 17 | Doctors have been puzzling over the cause of acne for many years and trying to find a cure . |
| 18 | If you 've got any sensitivities at all do n't look at them please , but if you wish to , they 'll give you an indication of the kind of thing that your fire fighters have been facing over the last three or four months . |
| 19 | Thus , at least one of the systems that children have been learning over the centuries in the ancestral forms of BV must have incorporated a three-way distinction of meet/meat/mate . |
| 20 | Love admits it will be very difficult for the players , who will be taking on opposition coming to the end of their season and in weather which will be completely different to what most of them have been experiencing over the past six months , though not to captain Bruce Russell , Iain Philip and Alastair Storie , who have spent the winter playing overseas . |
| 21 | Later I have been thinking over what Dad said . |
| 22 | Restart cyclamen corms that have been resting over the summer . |
| 23 | Dozens of gliders have been soaring over the region competing in one of the country 's largest gliding championships . |
| 24 | She seems all the more objectionable because so many people have been falling over themselves to help her . |
| 25 | their attitudes would , would lead you believe that they have changed and they have become more receptive to the kind of things women have been saying over the years . |
| 26 | SALES of mistletoe at Christmas have been reducing over the past decade or so . |
| 27 | Applications for undergraduate study in the Department have been increasing over the past few years and are currently four times the number of places available . |
| 28 | In recent months , the Independent Broadcasting Authority and Unisat have been negotiating over the use of low-power transmitters by the IBA . |
| 29 | Climbers visiting the newly developed Thrang and Striddle quarries in Langdale have been parking over the access to the nearby farm , which is also a public right of way . |
| 30 | It has been alleged that the accidents have occurred because your drivers have been working over the legal limit and that your vehicles have not been serviced . |