Example sentences of "[vb base] been [verb] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 2 | Oh I du n no , I 've been looking at a few , not that probably , not in the top ten |
| 3 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
| 4 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
| 5 | " I 've been looking at the cat in your window . " |
| 6 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 7 | I 've been looking at the knives again . |
| 8 | We 've been looking at the contrasting features of these two . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been looking at the basin where the sewage tank used to be . ’ |
| 10 | IN view of all the talk about a resumption of political talks , I 've been looking at the last word of the Ulster Unionists on the subject , delivered just before the plug was pulled last October . |
| 11 | So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies . |
| 12 | Each time they 've been reprieved at the last moment . |
| 13 | I came here with full agreements in order to get this convoy to Cerska and so far I 've been blocked at every turn . ’ |
| 14 | They 've been involved at every stage through carpentry , electrical and painting work through to its present state |
| 15 | Children who 've been given at a far too tender age , the terrible power of holding a loaded gun and be able to command everything in sight as a result of that , have actually got to get back and rediscover childhood . |
| 16 | We 've been growing at a fairly significant rate considering we 've only been back about five years . |
| 17 | I did n't see it , I 've been working at the office . |
| 18 | ‘ I 've been working at the restaurant for three years and I like it there . |
| 19 | We 've been knocking at the door in four defeats . |
| 20 | I 've been playing at the classes for around 40 years . |
| 21 | Peasant federations in Costa Rica , a country with a reputation for democratic institutions and relative equality , have been protesting at the surprisingly skewed distribution of land , by seizing unused land belonging to multinationals . |
| 22 | Most of her boyfriends have been collected at a time of crisis in their lives , lame ducks , my father calls them , who tend to move on when they have reorganised their existence , not wanting to be taken over . |
| 23 | The well-known cases which have been cited at the Bar in support of the position , that a promise , based on the consideration of doing that which a man is already bound to do , is invalid , apply to this case ; and it is not necessary , in order to invalidate the consideration , that the plaintiff 's prior obligation to afford that consideration should have been an obligation to the defendant . |
| 24 | The rescued badgers have been recuperating at the vale wildlife sanctuary near Evesham , along with 6 others which were the victims of road accidents . |
| 25 | More than a thousand redundancies have been announced at the Belling cooker company in Burnley and Enfield . |
| 26 | It was agreed that chapters 15 to 17 should be printed on yellow-tinted paper , with the following explanation at the top of the contents page : ‘ For ease of reference , chapters 15 to 17 have been placed at the front of the report , adjacent to the proposals , and are printed on tinted paper . ’ |
| 27 | They have been placed at the head of this chapter only because it is the extreme case which so often bothers the social worker in consideration of what he or she might be involved in if the sexual side of the work develops . |
| 28 | But just as these new politics have been developing at the local level , so too we need new theories and new concepts to take account of them . |
| 29 | Urban population figures have been rising at a much greater rate than rural . |
| 30 | House prices in Greater London have been rising at a rate of around 15 to 18 per cent over the past couple of years . |