Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glen Plake 's hair has been standing on end ever since he started watching his own ski movies . |
| 2 | Norfolk has been concentrating on promoting Medau with a view to increasing class membership . |
| 3 | Aldercine Hodson , Ruth Lawrence and Moya Hood taught in this area from the late sixties , but more recently Aldercine has been concentrating on classes with Active Retirement Clubs , as well as people with other special needs , and has organised several Sport/Fun Days for people with disabilities . |
| 4 | The Dad 's Music programme has been running on Middlesbrough 's local radio station ever since it started broadcasting in 1970 . |
| 5 | Echo has been working on the technology for three years with a variety of minicomputer architectures . |
| 6 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 7 | His eyes had been feeding on darkness and projections for too long , and now , presented with solid reality , they were befuddled . |
| 8 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 9 | Fanshawe had been lying on his face and the fire had scarcely touched him . |
| 10 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yes the districts have been working on the basis that I twelve is an additional provision to I five . |
| 13 | THOUSANDS of homes have been relying on stored water supplies following a discharge of diesel oil into the River Tees . |
| 14 | Paramedics have been travelling on emergency ambulances in Oxfordshire since the 1970s . |
| 15 | Colour specialists in Louisville have been working on the changes for three years , using information pulled in from dealers and regional sales people . |
| 16 | Thus far , the pundits have been betting on Stacker being included in the MSDOS 6 package , since a bundle with DOS 5.0 happened . |
| 17 | Luckily , despite the cramped conditions , I was able to block the inspector 's view , thereby obscuring Colin Webley 's neanderthal plumbing and the various cultures and mould growths my boy Chester has been propagating on the water tank as part of his Tech . |
| 18 | The princess has been calling on the skills of an astrologer in the region for the past three and a half years . |
| 19 | The paper says that Sun has been working on the project for two and a half years under the code-name Green at its SunLabs unit under former Apple Computer Inc executive Wayne Rosing , and is forming a new company , First Person Inc , to exploit it . |
| 20 | Sport now — and the sun has been shining on Pakistan 's cricketers at New Road this afternoon . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 23 | British Telecom has been putting on the pressure since Mercury was granted a licence in February last year . |
| 24 | Friends of the Earth Cymru has been campaigning on green issues in Wales for 10 years but relies on donations . |
| 25 | The faculty has been focusing on the main issues affecting freight into the next century . |
| 26 | Erm yes erm well at the ti at first I could only move my head , but when I went on that holiday , St Giles had been working on me with nerve machines and muscle machines |
| 27 | The mother-of-three had been sunbathing on the hottest day of 1990 . |
| 28 | A man in a dark suit across the aisle had been working on business papers since New York . |
| 29 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 30 | Your boy 's been working on it . |