Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] have been [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It reminded Jane of one of the Professor Branestawm stories she had read as a child in which the characters were photographs come alive , each repeating , over and over again , the sentence he or she had been saying at the moment the photograph was taken . |
| 2 | It was a standing pose and I had been working at my canvas for a week , my problems were not nearly solved , and the painting still excited me . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I 've been up for a bath and we 've been looking at the room I shall occupy . |
| 5 | So that we 're prepared within the Rural Housing Trust to look at all these ideas , and we 've been looking at the whole question , we feel that this has got to be one for the planners , the planners must be involved in identifying where these problems lie , they 're not uniform , all across the country , er and it 's something that er we therefore need to use the planning er scenario entirely and fully in order to identify where the problem lies . |
| 6 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 7 | ‘ No it 's not ’ , said a Scots Nationalist friend one day — very rude to me — ‘ it 's not cosmopolitan , it 's colonial ’ , and he had been looking at me and thinking ‘ here 's one of those damned Englishmen sponging on the Scots , making a good thing out of them ’ . |
| 8 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 9 | The department monitors the inmate population , offences against prison rules and the penalties awarded ; it assists management in determining security grades and in assessments on life sentence prisoners ; and it has been looking at the structures of meetings , the effectiveness of communications and the problems of stress in staff . |
| 10 | You 'd be on the line for a certain amount of publicity , but I 've been looking at today 's papers and it seems you 've already had a taste of what the Press can be like … ’ |
| 11 | Well so much for the sea surface temperatures of the past , but we 've been looking at our records of the compounds in the sediments even more carefully and what we 've seen in there are molecular fingerprints which do not match those of the marine organisms . |
| 12 | But they have been sneering at America since Sidney Smith , François Mauriac and George Grosz and will go on doing so long after Harold Pinter is gone . |