Example sentences of "been [v-ing] on [pos pn] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two days later , the most beautiful bloom burst forth which appeared to mimic a flow 3D diagram Margaret had been producing on her computer ! |
| 2 | ‘ I thought the big National Hunt boys would have been banging on our door , ’ he admitted . |
| 3 | The last time she had seen Niall he had been checking on his patients . |
| 4 | He 's been living on his reserves of nervous energy for the past couple of weeks . |
| 5 | The affected fish had previously been swimming on its head and it spine had become deformed due to its awkward position . |
| 6 | It was the man who had been lying on his bed when I arrived . |
| 7 | He had been lying on his back , looking at the ceiling with his eyes out of focus , taking his pulse over and over again to keep his mind empty . |
| 8 | He had been lying on his back , some distance away from her as usual , but as he spoke he turned on to his side , reaching out and laying a hand lightly across the smoothness of one slender thigh . |
| 9 | Fanshawe had been lying on his face and the fire had scarcely touched him . |
| 10 | If I ca n't get to the person they want I try and say to them , ‘ Look , can you please ring back ’ , because if they left a message , that message would have been lying on my desk until the next morning , until I get round to actually phoning that person internally , saying this person rang . |
| 11 | I 'd been lying on my bed , thinking of you , and suddenly I could n't bear it a moment longer and jumped off the bed intending to phone you — and there you were , looking half drowned and so nervous I was afraid to put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 12 | When you come out of role to reflect on what 's been going on your questions might include : " What led you to believe the carpenter was nervous/hiding something from us ? " |
| 13 | Right , this is my er the original beret but this is a beret that every single officer would have been wearing on his head and then er in relation to the actual uniform that the officer would be wearing er we wear jumpsuits . |
| 14 | The last few days he had been getting on her nerves . |
| 15 | The Walther Devlin had been holding on his knee appeared above the table now and he fired again , shooting Eggar through the right hand . |
| 16 | Robert denied a defence suggestion that he had been advancing on his brother and his family with his knife when he was shot . |
| 17 | Maggie remembered how the building had been rocking on its foundations . |
| 18 | I said I could see Victor was right , I had over-complicated the plot ; I should not have introduced the letters , which were paraphrases of a correspondence I 'd been reading on my journey to London . |
| 19 | Quick-thinking James , 20 , switched off the gas and collected a damp cloth , while Darren used the fire-fighting techniques he 'd been learning on his weekend course in Surrey to tackle the blaze . |
| 20 | It must have been playing on her mind . |
| 21 | Cos it had been playing on her mind for weeks . |
| 22 | Yes , middle class women have done a lot for the ‘ Women 's Movement ’ but does she really think that us working class women have been sitting on our arses doing nothing all this time . |
| 23 | I eventually got a chance to read the South Wales Aggregates Working Party 's Regional Commentary which has been sitting on my desk for months . |
| 24 | Yes , and certainly people who live inside it , because the book 's been sitting on my desk all week and I can see it 's been opened at places where people are either living or they know people living . |
| 25 | I know it 's him , this man — what was his name ? — Luke Denner , that 's got you so worked up ; you 've not been the same since those few days in the country and that plan of his has been sitting on your desk untouched for days on end . |
| 26 | He 'd been sitting on his fanny for three months now and here was a chance to do something . |
| 27 | The Scarabae had been preying on her mind , as in patches they always did , and so she had conjured up the memory to fit a stranger . |
| 28 | Long had disease been preying on her charms , |
| 29 | She had been relying on her blade , her teeth and her hands for too long . |
| 30 | They 're opening the gates of the Manor Ground for the first time this season tomorrow … new signing Anton Rogan has been trying on his shirt today … |