Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] been [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | Crash investigator , David Bristow used tyre marks on the road and a reconstruction to calculate that Gooch 's car had been travelling at up to 96 mph . |
| 2 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 3 | Breeze had been gazing at the lights for so long that she was quite dazzled . |
| 4 | The group had been drinking at a nearby pub in Uckington , Glos . |
| 5 | According to the price inflation version of the Phillips curve , we must of necessity infer that the economy had been operating at a level of demand which was consistent with an unemployment rate U * ; in Figure 6.6 . |
| 6 | Not surprisingly the British economy had been growing at only about half the average annual rate of 5.4 per cent for the EEC countries since 1953 . |
| 7 | The woman behind the counter had been gazing at her through strong spectacles and now scratched doubtfully at her moustache with a thumb-nail . |
| 8 | HP CEO John Young told a meeting of analysts last week that HP had been looking at both the USL and OSF kernels , but had no plans in place to license USL technology . |
| 9 | The Earl had been shouting at her that morning , ‘ Have n't you gone yet ? |
| 10 | Cecil explained that Pursuit of Love had been working at home with Desert Sun and the recent Newbury winner Rudimentary . |
| 11 | The human had been looking at one of those big sheets of paper … |
| 12 | The Doctor had been staring at the ceiling for a very long time . |
| 13 | While Jessica and Karen had been helping with the salmon mousse , the dark-eyed alien had been lurking at the gate … |
| 14 | Donna saw the exhibit her sister had been looking at and crossed to it . |
| 15 | School had been tiring at first on transfer but she had soon got used to it : originally she had belonged to a number of clubs in the early day ( Thursday ) when all such activities take place , but now preferred to go home early . |
| 16 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 17 | Our problem had been landing at all . |
| 18 | In the War , distribution expenditure had been running at only a fifth of the prewar level , and the plans prepared by the undertakings for the Electricity Commissioners show they expected to continue to spend more than half of all their capital on developing distribution , as they had in the 1930s . |
| 19 | During the second half of the 1960s , GNP had been rising at about 3 per cent a year in Britain . |
| 20 | During this time , Liz had taken much of the responsibility for the day-to-day running of the business , while her mother had been staying at home to look after her husband who was in poor health . |