Example sentences of "been [v-ing] at [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The woman behind the counter had been gazing at her through strong spectacles and now scratched doubtfully at her moustache with a thumb-nail . |
| 2 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 3 | But the odd tension which had been nagging at him seemed to be increasing . |
| 4 | There 's some worry about something — either he 's not going to be able to do the work , someone 's going to laugh or has been laughing at him , he does n't think the teacher 's going to understand , and it 's generally a terrible problem first thing in the morning to get him to get ready and get to school . |
| 5 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 6 | After all the incivilities he 'd been hurling at her , he deserved to be put in his place a little ! |
| 7 | Three of them I recognize , but the whole gang has been grinning at me and clapping me on the back like I was their kid brother pulled out of a scrape . |
| 8 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 9 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 10 | He was making her act like a gauche schoolgirl — Aurora Blake , who could hold thousands spellbound with the power of her voice , who could mix happily with kings and commoners — stammering apologetically because a man who had wandered unwanted and uninvited into her garden knew she 'd been looking at him ! |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been looking at him since the start of the season . |
| 12 | ‘ You 've been looking at me , your eldest son , Karim . |
| 13 | ‘ No it 's not ’ , said a Scots Nationalist friend one day — very rude to me — ‘ it 's not cosmopolitan , it 's colonial ’ , and he had been looking at me and thinking ‘ here 's one of those damned Englishmen sponging on the Scots , making a good thing out of them ’ . |
| 14 | I 've been looking at them every day and hoping I 'd get one and he knew that 's what I was hoping . |
| 15 | Carrie flashed Seb a shy smile that , had he been looking at her , would have conveyed to him all the love she was feeling . |
| 16 | I have been looking at it . |
| 17 | She sat back , munching , face red but eyes twinkling , and with those eyes indicated the two women who 'd been looking at us ; then she raised one finger and pointed first at me , then at her . |
| 18 | I 'll tell you what it is — it 's only bogland and I should know for I 've been lookin' at them fields for years . ’ |
| 19 | The Earl had been shouting at her that morning , ‘ Have n't you gone yet ? |
| 20 | Have they been going at you again ? ’ |
| 21 | Bet bloody Matt 's been getting at him probably knew the camera had caught him looking shit-scared . |
| 22 | Have the Methodies been getting at you ? ’ |
| 23 | She 's been getting at you , has n't she ? ’ |
| 24 | She heard the incredulity in his voice and it fuelled the small truth that had been niggling at her , unacknowledged , all day . |
| 25 | Her glance rested on him only for a matter of seconds , yet his face could not have registered more in her mind had she been staring at him for an hour . |
| 26 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 27 | ‘ If you continue to look at me like that we sha n't make it any further than the nearest bed , ’ he murmured , and Claudia jumped ; she had been staring at him hungrily . |
| 28 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
| 29 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 30 | I 've been staring at it for the past hour , waiting for it to start twitching around like a fat little worm on a fishing hook . |