Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd 've been lying on Spanish beaches with her eyes tight shut knowing that every Spanish boy who passed would fancy her . |
| 2 | But over the last twenty years a ‘ new long-stay ’ population has been accumulating on acute psychiatric wards . |
| 3 | It 's pretty obvious that Kurt Cobain has been running on reserve tanks for most of this Euro-jaunt . |
| 4 | Friends of the Earth Cymru has been campaigning on green issues in Wales for 10 years but relies on donations . |
| 5 | By 1600 hours the load on PTA Sir Geraint , Which has been going on all afternoon , is complete to the Chief Officer 's satisfaction . |
| 6 | And do you think , if this has been going on all the years it must have , he 's going to stop now ? |
| 7 | Incredible to think that it has been going on all these years … |
| 8 | The stake out has been going on all day . |
| 9 | I said I had no objections , but I would have to ask , you know , the committee if they had because she 's not a member as such , but obviously has been going on all the year . |
| 10 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 14 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 15 | Following on from his recent installations , the Argentinean artist has been working on moveable objects consisting of a wooden surface , on which he draws in graphite or coloured pastels , and a superimposed sheet of lead some distance from the base . |
| 16 | ‘ Recently he has been working on American films and he was very keen to get back home and work with some of his old mates . |
| 17 | ‘ Matthew has been realizing on other assets to keep the business afloat . |
| 18 | The SDIO has been concentrating on limited ground-based systems . |
| 19 | What change in land use has been happening on this marginal fringe between farmscape and wildscape , as shown on the map ? |
| 20 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 21 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 23 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He could have been walking on another planet The flat , moonlight illuminated landscape , interrupted by large and small pools of bright water seemed unreal . |
| 28 | There was no law , strictly speaking , against experimenting , although considering the stage which Alexei 's trials had reached , it was clear that he must have been working on this for some time . |
| 29 | Additionally , the fact that this part of the movement was written out by Leopold suggests that Mozart may have been working on another part of the symphony while his father was copying the part that already existed . |
| 30 | Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow . |