Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [v-ing] [noun] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past three years Brenda has been learning German at the Open Learning Centre on site and she puts it to good use on frequent trips abroad . |
| 2 | Peskin has been buying property at rock-bottom prices ahead of recovery . |
| 3 | The Bugatti Owners Club has been holding meetings at Prescott Hill near Cheltenham for more than half a century . |
| 4 | this has inaugurated a new kind of critical atmosphere and has been gathering conviction at the institutional and managerial level just as much as in the studios and in the discussions around art . |
| 5 | Howard Williams has been teaching music at St Peters School in Gloucester since 1973 . |
| 6 | Dr Stern has been conducting research at the museum to investigate ancient procedures of glass manufacture . |
| 7 | My right hon. Friend will be aware that HMS Norfolk — the first of the Duke class — has been accepted into the fleet and has been completing work-up at Portland . |
| 8 | Frances has been fostering animals at Freshfield Animal Rescue Centre near her home even longer than she 's been at Ashworth . |
| 9 | One of the country 's top chefs has been sampling life at the bottom … testing school dinners . |
| 10 | She 's been taking lessons at the Swallow flight centre since she was fourteen — now , on her seventeenth birthday she 's at last allowed to fly solo . |
| 11 | She 's been studying photography at Aylesbury College since then — forced to put her career as a nurse on hold . |