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Example sentences of "[vb base] be [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Another problem wives face is dealing with prison regulations .
2	‘ 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 . ’
3	This means that there is a specifically human nature to the early homo erectus which Leakey and Lewin reckon was roaming around East Africa 1½ million years ago .
4	Right from the beginning of my career as a journalist I 've been writing about gender issues from the male point of view .
5	‘ The editor we 've been looking for will also have to be able to cope with Alice Cooper dropping into our offices , plus other heavy metal groups who 've been into the heavy metal jewellery shop , the Great Frog which is in Carnaby Street beneath our offices .
6	All this week we 've been looking at life inside Grendon Prison in Buckinghamshire .
7	We 've been looking at horticulture on a grand scale .
8	I 've been searching for news of you all over Chelsea , Eaton Square , Cadogan Gardens … not a sign of your people anywhere . ’
9	I 've been hoping against hope you two would get together ! ’
10	providing , and you 've been living off capital in that way , and and and I 'm not prepared to do that , but I do think there is strong case for borrowing , er , providing it 's kept in in that in in er er under control at this time , and borrowing , I may feel that we will be able to be in a much better position to take our capital receipts and use them advantageously in the future .
11	‘ I 've been living on salad , fish and fresh air to be at my lightest for this , but it was well worth it .
12	‘ I 've been living in fear , undermined over the past few weeks , ’ he moaned .
13	I may be a little bit behind the times , but over the last couple of days I 've been experimenting with voice mail .
14	‘ They 've been feeding on waste from the labs .
15	I 've been thinking about convert these speakers this time
16	So you can , what what I 'm thinking of now is not so much , I 've been thinking of stuff that you have done , and that if you sort of spend a little bit of , not much time , maybe ten minutes on each topic , just having a little look at it and finding a problem , this is the sort of problem I was doing a month or two ago , can I do this one ?
17	So I 've been trying , I 've been trying to sort of , I I was arguing saying , I do n't think that 's true .
18	‘ I 've been trying like hell to do it , ’ said Daly .
19	We 've been moving at night .
20	And in the last couple of years I 've been listening to music that 's going in the same direction , like The Beach Boys , for instance , but trying to keep it within a guitar format .
21	That huge estate in Scotland — ; I 've been listening to Mamma and Mrs Talbot with half an ear , you never know what you might miss — and you do n't hunt . ’
22	You 've been listening to loverboy , that 's all ! ’
23	They have come in for quite a bit of stick , particularly when they 've been dealing with rape cases .
24	‘ You 've been dealing in magic , ’ Bloxham hollered .
25	Not long before the end of term now , pooh looking forward to er , going home to get some real food inside you I dare say , as opposed to the gruel you 've been getting in hall .
26	Anyway , I gather you 've been delving into prehistory — Marks , was n't it ?
27	And she has a hundred and forty and he 's gotten of cans for the his mum and Stewart 's been getting some cans for the shop for his granddad and I 've been asking for permission to go into the dump and get some for there .
28	And tell me what else you 've been doing at school ?
29	Just talk like what you 've been doing at school and things like that .
30	This has further emphasized to ourselves with , I accept our reading of the draft of P P G thirteen , and also more work we 've been doing on land in the city , and on the potential traffic implications in particular of further growth outside the ring road .