Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have been [verb] on " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | You see , for months he 's been living on a diet of Minpins , and a thousand Minpins is not even a snack for him . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | This has further emphasized to ourselves with , I accept our reading of the draft of P P G thirteen , and also more work we 've been doing on land in the city , and on the potential traffic implications in particular of further growth outside the ring road . |
| 4 | The work we have been doing on the standardisation of company codes has started to pay dividends . |
| 5 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
| 6 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |
| 7 | I am 23 and for the past three years I have been piling on the pounds without realising it until I finally took a good look at myself weighing in at 12st 3lbs ( 77.5kg ) at 5ft 4ins ( 1.6m ) . |
| 8 | For the past 10 years we 've been working on synthesising the chemical ; now we 're trying to see if the European Yew will provide the starter material for producing anti-cancer activity . |
| 9 | Over the past few years we have been working on such an account , and in this paper we focus on the implications of this account for a central tenet of the mental models approach : that the mental model of the text so far provides ( part of the context for the interpretation of the current sentence or clause . |
| 10 | The last few days he had been getting on her nerves . |
| 11 | George Hann says that in the years he has known about the business he has been approached on many occasions by people who ‘ come over as being very convincing but who turned out not to be genuine . |
| 12 | There can be no doubt that in the 112 years it has been standing on the embankment it has become a part of the London scene . |
| 13 | For three years he 's been campaigning on behalf of his brother Gary Mills and another man Tony Poole . |
| 14 | And besides the coincidence of his getting a new handler , without explanation , right after the disaster , Coleman could not help remembering the schoolboy password routine he had been given on joining the DIA . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ The poll results are very encouraging and in line with the response we have been getting on the doorsteps of Darlington . |
| 17 | Not only that : his was the round , jolly face he had seen in the window the day he had been hit on the head outside the room where he had been watching the Occultation of the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 18 | He was wearing the crumpled suit he had been wearing on the day Robert first saw him in the pub . |
| 19 | On each previous occasion he had been acquitted on all charges . |
| 20 | This week I 've been concentrating on the serious matter of the winter wardrobe . |
| 21 | If you take into account the fact that I have been up till after midnight every night since Monday , that I have a cold , and that that morning I had been talking on a sore throat from 9.30 to 1 o'clock , perhaps you will understand . ’ |
| 22 | Shaken but still thinking straight , Lynsey remembered the advice she had been given on defusing difficult situations . |
| 23 | All this week we 've been reporting on the work in South America of Oxfam , which this year marks its fiftieth anniversary . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Where this is known in advance it has been noted on the flight tables . |
| 26 | At one time push-ups were done on the knuckles but since medical evidence proved that this could cause severe metacarpal damage they have been done on the flat of the palms . |
| 27 | It had been accepted under the UDF umbrella , but after the ethnic strife at the beginning of 1990 concerning the Turkish minority it had been rejected on the grounds that it had been constituted on ethnic lines . |
| 28 | When Robert Burrows first became a Christian he had been working on a banana plantation , but some time after his conversion a Salvationist family gave him work on their dairy farm . |
| 29 | All day since dawn we have been lying on a soft bed of bluebells in a wood beside a river . |
| 30 | Over the last few issues we 've been focusing on minor scales and their application . |