Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lionel who had been catching up on news from Yorkshire , said , ‘ My brother tells me Hawksworth at the Hall has netted an enormous fish . |
| 2 | Although previously I had been walking only on weekends , I was now walking up to five times a week for half an hour at a time . |
| 3 | For the province 's future Olympic hopefuls have been brushing up on skills both on and off the sports fields . |
| 4 | The authorities claimed that they had been living illegally on land which had been allocated to others , in Khartoum suburbs such as Karmuta where large numbers of mud-brick houses had reportedly now been vacated and then destroyed by bulldozers . |
| 5 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
| 6 | ‘ If John Barnes had been going through on goal and he was brought down by John Humphrey , he would have been sent off . |
| 7 | er There 's a young girl in Didcot itself er her parents are known socially to the blokes at the fire brigade ; she , she suffers from cerebral palsy , she 's eight years old , and until recently she 's been going out on bike rides with her father on a child seat , but as you know kids grow up , they grow out of things , therefore she ca n't do it any more . |
| 8 | Menlo Park , California start-up , Wide Area Information Servers Inc , has productised some network publishing software for Unix servers that has been testing up on Internet for the last two years : WAIS Server and Workstation for Unix cost from $10,000 to $50,000. +1 415 617 0444 . |
| 9 | To add to Rocco 's woes , firms have been spending less on functions while he had to splash out £160 million on tarting up his properties , which include the Cafe Royal and the Waldorf . |
| 10 | Covertly , leaning far back in his chair , he watched McQuaid from under hooded eyelids : in all the years they had been coming together on Monaghan Day McQuaid had always spent the night in the house . |
| 11 | I 've been reading up on brochs , but when you 're actually there it 's really just the setting that 's so marvellous , and trying to imagine the sort of life they lived . ’ |
| 12 | Hundreds of dead dolphins have been washing up on shores in the Mediterranean recently , leaving scientists puzzled as to the cause . |
| 13 | In his absence the 78-year-old retired Black Country solicitor has been standing in on Taylor 's press conferences , trying to determine whether the England manager is still in control after the 2–0 defeat in Boston and earlier World Cup disaster in Norway . |
| 14 | GEMINI You seem to have been concentrating more on group than individual efforts lately . |
| 15 | His main rival has been tuning up on Burford golf course . |
| 16 | I 've been working mainly on girls ' education really from about eighteen ninety to about nineteen thirty and that 's what has mainly occupied me research wise . |
| 17 | More excitement surrounding Proteus International Plc , the computer-aided molecular modelling and drug design specialist : it is setting up a 50-50 joint venture with University College Dublin for animal health care products : Bioprobe Ltd will be capable of rapid production of diagnostics , vaccines and therapeutic drugs for use by vets — the university and Proteus have been working together on tuberculosis and spongiform encephalopathies — mad cow disease and scrapie , for 12 months , and the aim is for Bioprobe to produce commercially exploitable products within 18 to 24 months . |