Example sentences of "been [v-ing] over the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Restart cyclamen corms that have been resting over the summer . |
| 2 | Sir , — I have been puzzling over the purpose of P. Cowan 's ‘ Democracy ’ letter . |
| 3 | Doctors have been puzzling over the cause of acne for many years and trying to find a cure . |
| 4 | A man had been walking over the ground outside . |
| 5 | For it had been on a cold Sunday evening in the spring , after he had been looking over the house with the idea of buying it , that he had happened out of curiosity to ‘ pop in ’ , as fashionable Anglo-Catholics said , to Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St Basil 's at the end of the road . |
| 6 | They were standing by the desk in the library , where Theda had been going over the household accounts when the lawyer arrived , Hector , his wound still troublesome , laying at her feet . |
| 7 | Climbers visiting the newly developed Thrang and Striddle quarries in Langdale have been parking over the access to the nearby farm , which is also a public right of way . |
| 8 | In any case , if Parson Woodforde 's manservant Ben Leggatt found himself temporarily ‘ out of pocket ’ , all he had to do was to pawn the best pair of trousers he had been wearing over the weekend and redeem them in time for church on Sunday . |
| 9 | A row 's been brewing over the identity of the REAL Miss Forest of Dean . |
| 10 | Dozens of gliders have been soaring over the region competing in one of the country 's largest gliding championships . |
| 11 | She must have been sitting over the phone . |
| 12 | ‘ Miss Russell and I have been talking over the past . ’ |
| 13 | They should have been negotiating over the location of the European monetary institute and of a subsequent European central bank in the City of London , but they have never even raised those questions , despite the fact that , of all the countries of the European Community , the location of the central bank has much the greatest importance for Britain . |
| 14 | In recent months , the Independent Broadcasting Authority and Unisat have been negotiating over the use of low-power transmitters by the IBA . |
| 15 | There were few customers and the landlady had been leaning over the bar reading the Daily Mirror . |
| 16 | Since then they have regularly cleaned the slate and have been laying over the slate side by side . |
| 17 | He was clad in the same white coveralls as the half-dozen policemen who had been working over the room , like a coven of wraiths . |