Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [noun] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been seeing Molly on and off for about six months . |
| 2 | A primary purpose of the nine-day flight was to have been gathering evidence on how the human body adapted to weightlessness . |
| 3 | Until then the compound had been gathering dust on the shelves of the company 's research laboratories on the campus at Reading University . |
| 4 | This week , 13 and 14-year-old pupils have been gathering data on the county 's public footpath system , working as far afield as Saffron Walden . |
| 5 | We have , however , been gathering information on task/standing groups as it arose at various Senior Management meetings . |
| 6 | I had recently been representing consumers on the National Consumer Council , as well as chairing the National Gas Consumers ' Council . |
| 7 | The action occurred after Palestinians had attempted to prevent the soldiers arresting three men who had been painting slogans on a wall . |
| 8 | The promising Belfast youngster has been gaining experience on the international front among the Federation Cup aspirants in Nottingham . |
| 9 | She had thought she had been keeping watch on the creeping grey-streaked matter , but it had moved suddenly , the embryonic fingers clutching the ground , pulling the oozing , mucousy river forward until it was bubbling over her feet . |
| 10 | ‘ Yet you must have been keeping watch on the house — why ? ’ |
| 11 | In the alley itself , Detective Gary Lomax had been keeping watch on the towering fire escape . |
| 12 | CONFUSED shareholders have been seeking help on the complex question of Eurotunnel warrants and what they are worth . |
| 13 | Hundreds of Maxwell pensioners have been lobbying Parliament on the eve of the anniversary of the publisher 's death . |
| 14 | Police have been serving injunctions on New Age travellers in an effort to avert a mass gathering this Bank Holiday . |
| 15 | Diverted traffic has been causing chaos on roads . |
| 16 | This will equally enable the Policyholder to replace the engine with one of similar type , capacity , age and size to the one lost — and therefore we will have provided him with indemnity under the Policy notwithstanding the fact that he has been paying premium on the value insured . |
| 17 | Stuart said the girl must have been leading Oliver on and being provocative , I said she was probably shy and terrified by these advances from her teacher , until we both realised neither of us had set eyes on the girl or knew what had happened . |
| 18 | BBC has been testing EON on its local radio traffic experiment in south-east England and the Midlands for about two years , and several other European countries are already , or soon will be , implementing EON , although none of the 50 or so existing RDS models is suitable for this function . |
| 19 | ‘ I 'd been getting records on tick from Billy for ages , ’ explains Havanna 's Tony Scott , ‘ so I said to him ‘ If I make up a record , would you square up the bill ? ’ |
| 20 | Regional Council president Gérard Longuet has been holding discussions on this agreement since June not only with Les Verts but also with Génération Ecologie , two of whose six representatives also announced their support for his administration . |
| 21 | a while to transpose , I 've been printing stuff on card recently , |
| 22 | Even Yoko Ono ( noticeably absent from Gravity and Grace , who had been installing contraceptives on plinths and wrapping chairs in London in the 1960s , repeated a 1962 happening in Kynaston McShine 's Information exhibition at MOMA in 1970 : ‘ Draw an imaginary map … |
| 23 | I mean , I can only have fo lunchtime with Claire , like , I 've been having tomatoes on toast and some . |
| 24 | It 's worth mentioning too , that during the year , er , Dr Tim , the general practitioner , who is seconded with er , Social Services , has been doing work on hospital discharge , making sure that the arrangements are , are working , and his reports have been picked up by the respective authorities , and , er , there has er , a sort of action plan has been put together , which is , which is intended to try to improve the er , existing hospital discharge arr arrangement , making sure that people are discharged from hospital and that the er , right type of care is available for them in , in the community . |
| 25 | I 've been doing smack on and off for about five years . |
| 26 | Michael Jones of the Department of History had been doing research on these buildings for several years and with his colleague , Gwyn Meirion Jones of the City of London Polytechnic they tackled the challenge with alacrity . |
| 27 | Yeah , so if you 'd have been running windows on it . |
| 28 | For months now , El Comercio , Peru 's leading daily , had been running articles on Peruvian identity which it called ‘ the theme of our time . ’ |
| 29 | Have you , have you been spending hours on the technic ? |
| 30 | The motorist had been travelling Northbound on the M Six near the Walsall and Wolverhampton turnoff . |