Example sentences of "been [v-ing] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's been weeping at night when I 'm sleeping . |
| 2 | The paper 's political editor , Trevor Kavanagh , has been suggesting at Westminster that John Smith is the kind of man they can do business with . |
| 3 | Since then he had been farming at Mullu , some fifteen miles outside Addis Ababa . |
| 4 | The umpires conferred , then , like Tweedledum and Tweedledee in their striped shirts , cantered over to the third man in the stands , who 'd been gazing at Mrs Sherwood at the time and missed the incident altogether , and who now waved his down-turned palms back and forth to indicate no foul . |
| 5 | Word even came out of Tibet that the Odonata had been assisting at sky-burials , where corpses are left in sacred mountainous places for the attention of scavenger birds . |
| 6 | Miguelito has been singing at Pepe 's Bar for years . |
| 7 | At The Gnoll , while the outside world has been chortling at Neath 's discomfiture , they have insisted all along that every club is entitled to a transitional season now and then . |
| 8 | Citibank 's Art Advisory Services had been bidding at £4.4 million . |
| 9 | But a lot 's been happening at Littlewoods lately . |
| 10 | What has been happening at Warwick since we bought the company ? |
| 11 | What 's been happening at IMP ? |
| 12 | Such a lightning-spattered ending is found , for example , in Passionate Summer ( 1958 ) , where for most of the film the schoolteacher on a Caribbean Island has been keeping at bay the emotions directed towards him by a troubled pupil , the headmaster 's wife and an air hostess . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've been listening at keyholes , have you ? |
| 14 | The 1900s saw the opening of a number of new centres and missions for the deaf , among them Bury , West Ham , Plymouth and Chester ( although the latter had first been meeting at Stockport from 1889 onwards ) . |
| 15 | All this week we 've been looking at life inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire . |
| 16 | I hear you 've been looking at Eggle guitars … |
| 17 | European business development director Peter Scott denied rumours that Pyramid — like its OEM customer Olivetti — had been looking at DEC 's Alpha chip for future developments , but pointed out that much of Pyramid 's SMP technology could be ported to other platforms : it has already licenced its bus and systems software to ICL and Siemens-Nixdorf , and says that further deals will follow . |
| 18 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |
| 19 | said she phoned me the night before last and she said she 's been looking at flats I thought I 'd just ring you to tell you we 've been looking at flats and they range from two hundred and fifty to four hundred and eighty pounds a week for a flat |
| 20 | But Ferguson countered : ‘ A lot of people have been looking at Eric 's move with a very negative attitude . |
| 21 | Why you been looking at bathrooms this morning ? |
| 22 | of done Quickspend , you 'd have been looking at figures that showed a lot more profitability . |
| 23 | He added , ‘ Have you been looking at birds ? |
| 24 | So far we have been looking at earthworks particular to deserted settlement sites . |
| 25 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 26 | But for others in civil aviation , from BAA ( which has been looking at airport facilities in Budapest ) to carriers such as KLM and Interflug , which are anxious for the markets , it would be just the thing . |
| 27 | She had been looking at Mick , but turned slowly and looked at Joe , and smiling slightly said , ‘ Yes ; yes , of course . ’ |
| 28 | Such proposals are naturally a major source of controversy between the political parties but some local authorities have undoubtedly been looking at charges with a fresh eye in recent years . |
| 29 | With a broad smile , David says : ‘ We have also been looking at Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy and we 're just about to start on Marilyn Monroe ! ’ |
| 30 | Watkins says Bill Joy 's Sun Labs team has been looking at micro-kernel technologies under the auspices of Spring , Sun 's blue-sky , rolling research effort . |