Example sentences of "[verb] been [v-ing] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | The egg has been gleaming up at me , cold and slippery as an oyster , daring me to eat it . |
| 2 | John Gummer , the Minister of Agriculture , has been staying not at the Imperial , but at a modest B-&-B at the back of the conference hall . |
| 3 | MR GOULT 'S faithful terrier Champ has been pining away at Huyton police station . |
| 4 | But before it does , the Daily Mirror , along with Carry On creators Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas , has been looking back at some of the funniest moments ever to be played out on the big screen . |
| 5 | The clinic , has been operating here at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford for a year on a trial basis — one of only a few in the Country . |
| 6 | The move is symbolic of what has been going on at H&C since George Paul , the chief executive , took over two years ago . |
| 7 | My own view is that neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold knew very much about the complex debate that has been going on at least since Rousseau about progressive education , and that they did not realise that my Group would be strongly opposed to Mrs Thatcher 's views about grammar and rote-learning . |
| 8 | A strike has been going on at the mine for over three months and the nine who died were all non-union men . |
| 9 | After hearing so much about objects and Oracle Version 8.0 — object prototyping work has been going on at the firm since 1988 — at the moment it does n't look as though Oracle will create a separate object-oriented database product , although Oracle 's object guru , David Beech , believes it may eventually make marketing sense to do so . |
| 10 | They 've seen the introduction of performance related pay , personal contracts , new working practices , pay freezes , pay cuts and always the fear of redundancy and all of this has been going on at a time when increasingly companies are withdrawing from national collective agreements , are establishing separate bargaining arrangements , restricting the activities of trade union officials and increasingly de-recognizing trade unions . |
| 11 | Shipbuilding for the Royal Navy has been going on at Lairds since the 1830s . |
| 12 | Over the last year , SCOTVEC has been working hard at introducing Scottish Vocational Qualifications ( SVQs ) that are relevant to the needs of particular occupational sectors . |
| 13 | Now it 's all hands to the deck for the close friends as they knuckle down to bring back the sparkle that has been missing down at Hamilton Park for the past few seasons . |
| 14 | If he had been observing , he would have noticed that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been scoring heavily at Prime Minister 's Question Time — winning hands down . |
| 15 | But it seems to me that every time I 've open a newspaper over the past two or three years , Stuart Bell , the Labour MP for Middlesbrough , has been staring out at me . |
| 16 | Concern has been mounting recently at the potential for unnecessary duplication of its activities with those of the Association of Railway Preservation Societies ( ARPS ) . |
| 17 | He says the tabloid press has been hitting out at the Lords for a long time . |
| 18 | It was a planned pregnancy , and she 'd been working hard at getting her blood sugar under control , but that often ca n't be done overnight . ’ |
| 19 | She must have been staying there at the weekend ! |
| 20 | All this head of steam must have been boiling up at the time of JTR 's visit and yet he seems not to have been aware of it . |
| 21 | Under its headline ‘ Mercantile Tricycles Denounced ’ , the Graphic described how , in default of paying a 10 shillings fine plus costs , this cycling desperado was sentenced to seven days ' imprisonment — and what is more , poor Thomas Duff had been estimated by the police to have been rattling along at somewhere between 8 and 10 miles per hour . |
| 22 | In a period of anxious entrail-gazing , practically anything that coincides with what post-hoc statistics show to have been going on at the time , will qualify for this accolade . |
| 23 | Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake . |
| 24 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 25 | In 1940 U.556 had been fitting out at Hamburg at the same quay as the Bismarck and in return for borrowing Bismarck 's band for her commissioning ceremony , Wohlfarth , who was a skilled cartoonist , prepared a document , charred at the edges to show its age , whereby U.556 would ‘ adopt ’ Bismarck ( as towns in Germany and England then were adopting warships ) and protect her from harm in all the oceans , seas , lakes , ponds , puddles of the world . |
| 26 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 27 | While making the film , Crawford had been getting up at 4.30am each day , going to the studios , performing on stage in No Sex , Please — We 're British , then going to bed after 11pm . |
| 28 | Production had been building up at Courtaulds ' $85 million plant near Mobile , Alabama , since June , 1992 . |
| 29 | For years father had been nagging away at him to take some interest and prove he had the Miletti flair , yet as soon as he tried to show a bit of initiative everyone got on their high horse about it , father especially , calling him a worthless junkie and I do n't what else besides . |
| 30 | She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me . |