Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [adv] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | MR GOULT 'S faithful terrier Champ has been pining away at Huyton police station . |
| 2 | The clinic , has been operating here at the Nuffield Orthopaedic Centre in Oxford for a year on a trial basis — one of only a few in the Country . |
| 3 | Over the last year , SCOTVEC has been working hard at introducing Scottish Vocational Qualifications ( SVQs ) that are relevant to the needs of particular occupational sectors . |
| 4 | If he had been observing , he would have noticed that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister has been scoring heavily at Prime Minister 's Question Time — winning hands down . |
| 5 | Concern has been mounting recently at the potential for unnecessary duplication of its activities with those of the Association of Railway Preservation Societies ( ARPS ) . |
| 6 | It was a planned pregnancy , and she 'd been working hard at getting her blood sugar under control , but that often ca n't be done overnight . ’ |
| 7 | She must have been staying there at the weekend ! |
| 8 | Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake . |
| 9 | For years father had been nagging away at him to take some interest and prove he had the Miletti flair , yet as soon as he tried to show a bit of initiative everyone got on their high horse about it , father especially , calling him a worthless junkie and I do n't what else besides . |
| 10 | She had been living here at the château , helping with the children , but she moved down to Les Hiboux to get away from me . |
| 11 | A few hours earlier she had been grinding wearily at Latin prose composition , when she had caught a shocked glimpse of her pinched , haggard face in the mirror . |
| 12 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 13 | And he had probably expected to see her at the shop this morning , while she had been waiting impatiently at his office . |
| 14 | Dave did n't bother to shave until the evenings , and Colin 's shoes had been coming away at the sides for weeks . |
| 15 | In third place Karl O'Donnell ( Newlands ) , who had been leading overnight at two under slipped to a 75 on Sunday to finish two over par , his early rounds had been 70 and 70 . |
| 16 | William Day had been working late at a nearby farm . |
| 17 | Mr Brumhill had been working late at the shop on Wellingborough Road , something he often did . |
| 18 | Mr Brumhill had been working late at the shop on Wellingborough Road , something he often did . |
| 19 | She placed a cup of coffee in front of him , but Travis was still letting go with everything that had been tearing away at him ever since he had first clapped eyes on Rosemary . |
| 20 | Meanwhile however , the rest of the Hurricanes had been suffering badly at the hands of the German fighters . |
| 21 | Ewen Mackay had been staring hard at the other man while they talked . |
| 22 | They had been sitting together at the top of their organisations throughout the years of cut-backs . |
| 23 | Voices that had been chattering away at you all your life . |
| 24 | I 've been working hard at getting fit again . |
| 25 | Many questions were asked on these papers by the Panel , and the other thing that I thought was very revealing , is one point that I 've been hammering away at , is the fact that they actually produced these figures for U K car registrations over the last 10 years , 10 years ago there were one and a half million , last year there were nearly 2 and a half million . |
| 26 | The change over the past 2,700 years means days have been getting longer at an average rate of 1.7 milliseconds per 100 years . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , specialist retailers like Dixons , an electricals chain , and niche shops like Tie Rack have been paring away at the department stores ' share of the high-street market . |
| 28 | However , in insisting on a two-year probation period for new assemblers , the Polish government runs the risk that firms such as Wyse Technology Inc , which have been looking seriously at manufacturing in the country , may find short-term sales opportunities unattractive . |
| 29 | We have been frequent visitors at Government House and have been staying also at their cottage , New Norfolk . |
| 30 | Computers have been working overtime at corporate headquarters since last Tuesday 's announcement in an attempt to assess the impact on individual project and company cash flow . |