Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [v-ing] at the " in BNC.
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1 | For the first time that anyone can remember , the Soviet Union has been buying at the London auction . |
2 | Adisa has been staying At the home of Michael Durgut in Kidlington , a native Bosnian . |
3 | Adisa has been staying At the home of Michael Durgut in Kidlington , a native Bosnian . |
4 | Daphne Hereward has been teaching at the Ghana Empire school in Accra since 1977 after a career devoted to classical and archaeological studies and teaching , in both university and school . |
5 | The playgroup , at Cam in Gloucestershire , has been meeting at the United Reform chapel in the village for 10 years . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | The club has been looking at the 88open test suites , and the testing technology will be available in late 1993 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | And PC Week has been looking at the pre-release development kit for Windows NT , shipping this week , and finds that the new NT File System is not yet complete , and neither are the security features that are tied to it . |
10 | The Centre has been looking at the productivity record of profit-sharing and non-profit-sharing firms , and the extent to which Japanese experience supports the idea that profit-sharing is a defence against stagflation . |
11 | As the charity Oxfam moves into its fiftieth year , Central News South has been looking at the work it does away from the headlines of war and natural disaster . |
12 | Mike Rowbottom has been looking at the history of this remarkable experiment in Christian co-operation . |
13 | Our environment reporter Harriet Ryley has been looking at the changing attitude to what we throw away and how we deal with it . |
14 | A tradesman who has been ringing at the front door for several minutes gives up and goes away . |
15 | To get the clean price we subtract the interest that has been accruing at the rate of d per cent up to that day . |
16 | Foodmaster has been running at the BBC catering department for two years . |
17 | Ron Coatman has been working at the pool for 26 years . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | The number of workers on the land has been shrinking at the rate of nearly 20000 per year , although this has not occurred in a completely uniform fashion . |
21 | Twice a day for the best part of four decades a box has been arriving at the Palace containing the reports from British ambassadors overseas . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | Now when erm you say are supplying at the moment . |
24 | ‘ Before I burst through that door , I 'd been listening at the window — I distinctly recall that he was refusing to say anything really damning . |
25 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
26 | But of course , th , I 'd been living at The Haven then , next to the butcher 's shop . |
27 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |
28 | Lone travellers , they 'd been talking at the bar , and Lily had said how much she enjoyed dancing . |
29 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
30 | He dozed but woke with a start , dreaming that the Hell-hounds he had just visited were snuffling at the door , but it was only Ranulf dragging a stool across the dusty rushes . |