Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway erm we 've been hearing on this programme recently of course that er people are against hunting against fishing er they say it 's cruel . |
| 2 | Ian 's temperament is something he is working on and we 've been working on all the time , but he just seems to be getting maximum publicity at the moment . ’ |
| 3 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 5 | ‘ This is n't a sudden change of course — we 've been working on this for a long time and over the last five years have moved our portfolio towards lower cost exploration areas . |
| 6 | ‘ I 've been working on this for a couple of weeks now . |
| 7 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |
| 8 | There 's an old clay range up in the woods , and I 've been practising on that . |
| 9 | We 've been practising on this wicket . |
| 10 | Members may well be aware of , of some of the actions that the A T C have been taking on this , and have been calling on that to actually look at that to list of alternate . |
| 11 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 12 | I have been working on this book about the Prince of Palatine for over 25 years ; I 'll never finish it , but who cares , it 's interesting , especially since I can read seventeenth-century German which very few people can . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
| 14 | Mr Ed Sweeney , Bifu 's deputy general secretary , said yesterday : ‘ Both banks have been working on these cuts for months and then choose today to axe jobs . ’ |
| 15 | Scholars from various disciplines have been working on these problems since the mid-1940s . |
| 16 | But I have been working on some things especially for Pierantozzi , and hopefully I will get a chance to try them out . ’ |
| 17 | Preparations for the Queen 's visit to the new unit have been going on all day . |
| 18 | So far we have established that major changes have been going on both in the UK economy as a whole and in its geography . |