Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] on [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dr Jenkins , from Leicester University , has been working on two compounds found in English yew and has recently been joined by Dr Nick Lawrence of Manchester University . |
| 2 | The start-up company has been working on four lines of development , all using its own proprietary 64-bit Sparc implementation and the VME bus . |
| 3 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 4 | At this point , a young woman who 'd been sitting on one of Bridget 's sofas jumped angrily to her feet and shouted at Geoffrey . |
| 5 | Any sizable successful herbivorous group surely can not have been relying on one such geographically limited group of seed-plants to the exclusion of all others . |
| 6 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 7 | The men had been working on 415 volt switchgear at Caldervale High School . |
| 8 | I was in a French class at school when I picked up a copy of the magazine , which had been lying on one of the tables . |
| 9 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 10 | I do hope the members will recognise that the service has not be sitting on its laurels er between inspectors ' reports but that we have been modelling on one quarterly to er correct any omissions with respect to boundary or to make the necessary improvements in the service erm as , as recommended by the inspect and supported by members . |
| 11 | Since giving up work to start my family , I have been working on two books — a novel and a cookery book related to my former job ( I was a home economist ) . |
| 12 | According to what we 've been able to piece together using what may be dated information , it 's been working on four lines of development , all using the company 's proprietary 64-bit Sparc implementation and the VME bus . |