Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unigram 's Tokyo bureau has been looking at some of the research work being developed by Matsushita Electric Industrial Co at its Tokyo Information and Communications Research Laboratory . |
| 2 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 3 | SUNDAY LIFE has been looking at some of the Irish people and places which get a mention in the 1993 edition of the Guinness Book of Records . |
| 4 | Mail order houses ' share of total consumer spending on such goods has been increasing at such a rate that , within two or three years , it is likely to be double its 1970 level . |
| 5 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 6 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 7 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 8 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 9 | Mr Campbell said that during the first incident , when Mr Friel and the two younger accused had been shouting at each other in the shopping centre , the lawyer had struck the 15-year-old on the face with the dog leash . |
| 10 | Our problem had been landing at all . |
| 11 | Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover . |
| 12 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 13 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 14 | Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm |
| 15 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |
| 16 | Yes , I 've been , I 've been looking at this and see what I can play . |
| 17 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |
| 18 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
| 20 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 21 | You , you 've been hacking at this one bit , it 's gone too soft , look that 's why , yes , gone too soft |
| 22 | No Sally 's new at the job , we 've been working at this for for on on the technical front for some time , now let's just sit down and and work out what we 're gon na do . |
| 23 | As a way of reducing the cost , the Department of Education and Science , where the Minister for Sport presently resides , have been looking at such extreme measures as the feasibility of turning primary classrooms into temporary swimming pools . |
| 24 | Now people have been looking at this for a long time . |
| 25 | But something about your comments worries me a great deal , and that 's the fact that many women tutors , you say , have been looking at this issue , but they have n't looked at the major part of the issue , which is from the students ' perspectives and the problem that goes on between students . |
| 26 | THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market . |
| 27 | Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries . |
| 28 | After all , the Central Council of Physical Recreation — of which the Duke is president — and the Sports Council , the two most powerful bodies in British sport , have been sniping at each other for years . |
| 29 | And I 'd just like to take the opportunity to er emphasise the point that I have been making at this E I P that erm r regional migration from the West Yorkshire is reducing and we do n't want to create a magnet which reverses that trend . |
| 30 | He 's been looking at that erm inspiration has n't , do you know I bet it would if he made a cup of tea why was n't |