Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] be [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rang her every day , but I had n't seen her during the time I 'd been living at Eva 's ; I could n't face any of them in that house . |
| 2 | But of course , th , I 'd been living at The Haven then , next to the butcher 's shop . |
| 3 | ‘ Before I burst through that door , I 'd been listening at the window — I distinctly recall that he was refusing to say anything really damning . |
| 4 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 5 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 6 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
| 7 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 8 | And that was the only part I did n't care for , because if I 'd been arriving at a lot of conclusions that were wrong , then I could be wrong about this too . |
| 9 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 10 | ‘ However , British Coal believe that plans for major new investments have to be reviewed in the light of the changing market conditions , which I understand is happening at Point of Ayr . ’ |
| 11 | What I love is looking at the designs and helping choose the fabrics — and working out how much to charge ! ’ |
| 12 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 13 | After all , that was what I had been aiming at . |
| 14 | Maybe my dad was really and truly dead and what I had been looking at , in the road outside our house and in Furnival Gardens , had been a hologram put out by the Tellenoreans . |
| 15 | ‘ I had been looking at the world ratings and the draw certainly is n't what I had expected , ’ said Gregg . |
| 16 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 19 | I 'll tell you what it is — it 's only bogland and I should know for I 've been lookin' at them fields for years . ’ |
| 20 | I 've been staying at her place for some weeks now , in order to help her maintain the tight control on her blood sugar that 's so vital , especially in the first three months , but that 's becoming impractical . |
| 21 | My social history is very different from Trevelyan 's , one of the most remarkable books on English social history , because of course I come from a very different background , I 've different experience from Trevelyan , but also I 've been writing at a different time . |
| 22 | " I 've been living at Moorlake . |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been looking at your expense account , Brian , ’ says Vic , turning over a small pile of bills and receipts . |
| 24 | Over the last few months I 've been looking at the different types of files you 'll find on a PC — here 's a quick recap to refresh your memory . |
| 25 | I 've been looking at them every day and hoping I 'd get one and he knew that 's what I was hoping . |
| 26 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |
| 27 | Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm |
| 28 | To be fair , I did n't , I did say we 're talking about parenting and one one could do another programme perhaps , focusing on the child or the needs and rights of the child in specific , but I think I 've been looking at the almost the scariness , I suppose , of being a parent , the challenges facing parents and the whole half hour , really , has not been about the joys of parenthood , so much as the problems of parenthood ! |
| 29 | " I 've been looking at the cat in your window . " |
| 30 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |