Example sentences of "[verb] be [v-ing] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | March 17th is my traditional early chiffchaff date and although a journey south to Poole and a short time near possible sites on that day , yielded no hearing of the bird , one has been singing in this garden today . |
| 2 | The Administration Centre has been expanding over this first year . |
| 3 | Mr. Bill Walker : The Hon. Gentleman will be aware that since its inception the SDA has been investing in this way throughout Scotland and in companies . |
| 4 | In his search he was aided by a number of new roads which the Mexican government has been building in this area to open up new regions to cultivation . |
| 5 | In fact the whole of SE Asia has been booming over this period . |
| 6 | A particularly influential way of studying them was outlined by Ninian Smart , one of the first members of the Shap Working Party which has been campaigning for this approach since the early 1970s : religions each have at least six dimensions : doctrinal , mythological , ethical , ritual , experiential and social . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Good God , Teddy , the US arms industry has been praying for this war for years . |
| 9 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 10 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 11 | It is crucial to identify the source of the methane in order to be able to devise appropriate remedies , and FPG has been working in this area for some time . |
| 12 | He has been working in this vein since the late Sixties , when only hippies , greens and cranks thought it was important . |
| 13 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
| 14 | trade unionism has been failing in this country for the last fourteen years . |
| 15 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |
| 16 | Spurs chief executive Terry Venables said : ‘ I 'm thrilled for Gordon because he has been suffering with this ‘ cheat ’ slur hanging over him . |
| 17 | ‘ The only difference is that in Rome everybody has been talking about this game for three months . |
| 18 | Somebody has been interfering with this case internally . ’ |
| 19 | What change in land use has been happening on this marginal fringe between farmscape and wildscape , as shown on the map ? |
| 20 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 21 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 22 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 23 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 24 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 25 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 26 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 27 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 28 | Five minutes later he came in trying to tell tell us jokes and each time he 'd been paddling through this brake fluid and the carpet is just you know , brains |
| 29 | We all know is coming after this day dies . |
| 30 | He 'd have been undertaking with this man . |