Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [v-ing] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Police are warning elderly people to be on their guard against a bogus council worker who has been calling at homes in the Forest of Dean . |
| 2 | Miguelito has been singing at Pepe 's Bar for years . |
| 3 | At The Gnoll , while the outside world has been chortling at Neath 's discomfiture , they have insisted all along that every club is entitled to a transitional season now and then . |
| 4 | Charles has been living at Highgrove and Diana has been based at Kensington Palace . |
| 5 | THE P&O flag has been flying at Table Mountain . |
| 6 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 7 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 8 | Watkins says Bill Joy 's Sun Labs team has been looking at micro-kernel technologies under the auspices of Spring , Sun 's blue-sky , rolling research effort . |
| 9 | Our Political Editor Peter Hayes has been looking at Labour 's week in Brighton . |
| 10 | At the University of Ghana , Dr Samuel Sefa-Dedeh has been looking at ways of increasing the productivity of grain legumes in the tropics . |
| 11 | The number of people who die from the habit is increasing every year , and a special conference has been looking at ways of tackling the problem . |
| 12 | Well Tony Primmer 's an Australian and has been riding at Eastbourne and we were looking at him prior to this erm sort of amalgamation that came in because erm with our friendship with Bob Dugard , and looking for younger riders , he was sort of earmarked to come here at some stage . |
| 13 | The paper 's political editor , Trevor Kavanagh , has been suggesting at Westminster that John Smith is the kind of man they can do business with . |
| 14 | Philip , who is to take his A Levels this summer , has been studying at Repton for the last few months and will join the Academy in August , two months after Zara arrives at the Academy 's Hemel Hempstead base . |
| 15 | There has been racing at York since roman times when horses were matched against each other about a mile to the north of the city . |
| 16 | Filan , who carries an Irish passport , has been working at Saints with former England goalkeeping coach Mike Kelly after failing to impress Lou Macari during a week 's trial at Stoke . |
| 17 | Frances has been working at Ashworth for the last four years . |
| 18 | An example of this has been evolving at IBM for many years with the AS/400 . |
| 19 | Such a lightning-spattered ending is found , for example , in Passionate Summer ( 1958 ) , where for most of the film the schoolteacher on a Caribbean Island has been keeping at bay the emotions directed towards him by a troubled pupil , the headmaster 's wife and an air hostess . |
| 20 | What has been happening at Warwick since we bought the company ? |
| 21 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |
| 22 | It 's been weeping at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 23 | What 's been happening at IMP ? |
| 24 | But a lot 's been happening at Littlewoods lately . |
| 25 | oh , no wonder that 's been hurting at night |