Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [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 | ‘ Someone 's been splashing out at Woolworths , ’ said O'Hara , tapping with his hook at the pearls . |
| 19 | It 's Mackeson Gold Cup Day , it 's been raining heavily at Cheltenham , there 's a non-runner in the big race details coming up . |
| 20 | They must know it 's been going on at domestic and international level for a long time . |
| 21 | ‘ By the look of what 's on the meter some sucker 's been driving around at ground level . |