Example sentences of "[pron] [vb -s] be [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 2 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 3 | A House of Commons select committee , which has been looking at the feasibility of using ‘ combined heat and power ’ ( CHP ) , last week reported that the idea is about to come into its own in Britain . |
| 4 | A tradesman who has been ringing at the front door for several minutes gives up and goes away . |
| 5 | Police are warning elderly people to be on their guard against a bogus council worker who has been calling at homes in the Forest of Dean . |
| 6 | ‘ She has been falling at my feet since she was a child . ’ |
| 7 | She 's been hacking at her hair again . |
| 8 | She 's been getting at you , has n't she ? ’ |
| 9 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |
| 10 | And are there people in class four at Stronsay school who 's been looking at some of the legends . |
| 11 | It becomes clear after one has been working at something for several weeks , he typed ( as Harsnet had written ) , that one is not going to achieve what one had hoped for . |
| 12 | There has been racing at York since roman times when horses were matched against each other about a mile to the north of the city . |
| 13 | He said , ‘ There 's been picketing at the Town Hall , some rioting , the blackshirts moved in . |
| 14 | He has been working at the Western Infirmary in Glasgow since 1980 , but has now decided to move to the Royal Liverpool University Hospital in the new year . |
| 15 | The department monitors the inmate population , offences against prison rules and the penalties awarded ; it assists management in determining security grades and in assessments on life sentence prisoners ; and it has been looking at the structures of meetings , the effectiveness of communications and the problems of stress in staff . |
| 16 | Coupled with this , however , we have to remember the huge concentration of such sediment in deltas such as that of the Mississippi , where it has been accumulating at a fantastic rate ( perhaps 10 000 feet in the same period of time ) . |
| 17 | As the minimum economic scale of production in the assembly plant has been decreasing , it has been increasing at the level of the firm for engineering , design and marketing . |
| 18 | It 's been screaming at me for days , but I just could n't see it . |
| 19 | It 's been weeping at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | Then the really hard part is persuading the public to listen , because the last thing they want to believe is that the charlatan in the white coat is n't going to give them a cure for cancer , a promise he 's been renewing at regular intervals for the past two hundred years . |
| 22 | He 's been speaking at a debate on the issue in Strasbourg . |
| 23 | So he 's been having at |
| 24 | Their models have been evolving as circumstances have changed and explain much of what has been happening at the level of the industry , but say little about the behaviour of individual firms . |
| 25 | What has been happening at Warwick since we bought the company ? |
| 26 | What 's been happening at IMP ? |