Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] on the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shaking off the nostalgia that threatened to overwhelm her , she went to the window and threw it open , startling a tiny robin that had been resting on the sill . |
| 2 | I did n't need a pee because I 'd been pissing on the Poles during the day , infecting them with my scent and power . |
| 3 | It was raining when Patrick Montgomery Lundy , followed by Jane Bradley , stepped onto Irish soil , and he suddenly remembered his mother telling him that it had been raining on the day she had first come to Ireland , in the May of 1898 . |
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| 5 | Mr Fraser had been walking on the moors with his wife and daughter when he was taken ill at about 5.30pm on Sunday . |
| 6 | He had been walking on the riverbank observing a high tide . |
| 7 | Dealing Team , who has been knocking on the door at Hackney , should prove too strong for her rivals on Tuesday 's BAGS card . |
| 8 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 9 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 10 | She 's the sort of filly who deserves a big race win for she has been knocking on the door all season . |
| 11 | Abso , absolutely , you see because if you take — last year we had er one of our winners er a lady called Liz Harris , who 's been knocking on the door and trying to get established as a writer for years and years and years . |
| 12 | The vacancies have been appearing on the notice board . |
| 13 | From Plato 's Academy , in fifth-century BC Athens , to the latest government report on higher education , experts have been pronouncing on the value of college education — what it contributes to the development of individual character and what to society . |
| 14 | At the end of our corridor is the playroom where the children not yet in school spend their days with playworkers — unemployed women who 'd been signing on the dole before getting these " work experience scheme " jobs funded by the Manpower Services Commission . |
| 15 | Keeler has been musing on the nature of weediness and the likelihood of it evolving among engineered crops . |
| 16 | The daring magnitude of this conception has since been obscured by its almost routine enactment in a series of African countries in the 1960s , but it should never be forgotten that India was the test case , and that at the time success in the execution of such a plan seemed far from assured : only a year before Mountbatten 's appointment the then viceroy , Lord Wavell , had been pressing on the Cabinet his ‘ Breakdown Plan ’ , which consisted simply of the phased evacuation of the British from India without any serious attempt to ensure that a viable , much less friendly , government was installed in their place . |
| 17 | Lord Lawson lines up alongside other members of the old guard such as Lord Howe , the late Lord Ridley and Lady Thatcher herself , who have been banging on the monetarist drum with the message that the deficit is one of the keys to the economy . |
| 18 | To anyone who has been driving on the planet earth within the last 75 years , they are just the same . |
| 19 | That is the update on the outside of the Lincoln Turbine Service building , so what has been happening on the inside ? |
| 20 | With a look at what 's been happening on the sport 's front today , here 's Andy Smith : |
| 21 | They tell us what 's been happening on the unit that we 're going to be working on , so that we know what 's been going on for the morning . ’ |
| 22 | At this Maria Candida , who had been listening on the stairs , let out a wail of joy at the thought that she would be seeing Portugal again ; Leonora went to embrace her daughter and whisper her blessings , while Gerald , who knew when he was beaten and was never any good in emotional situations , announced that he had important business in the castle yard , and would return as soon as he had attended to it . |
| 23 | Architects are said to have been prowling on the island incognito gathering intelligence for their mission . |
| 24 | Constance had lost Ludo — something she had been dreading on the journey up from Florence — but she was not alarmed . |
| 25 | Barrington has taken over as the Squash Racquets Association 's Director of Excellence , and has been passing on the benefit of his vast experience to young British players like Marshall , Chris Walker ( world ranked 10 ) , Del Harris ( 11 ) , and Simon Parke ( 12 ) . |
| 26 | If she had searched his bedroom earlier , she thought ruefully , she would not have been shivering on the pavement in a black pullover and jeans at two o'clock in the morning , carrying a large screwdriver . |
| 27 | A man who has been living on the verge of success for so long now he 's been elected mayor , PIERCE TURNER is nonetheless happy , And with one of the year 's best albums , ‘ Now Is Heaven ’ , under his belt , why should n't he be ? |
| 28 | ‘ If someone has been living on the streets for a number of years he ca n't switch over to an organized life in a couple of days … it is too sudden . |
| 29 | We have been living on the edge for a number of weeks waiting for this decision to be made known . ’ |
| 30 | Been living on the daddy 's field rations . |