Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] [been] [verb] at [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 2 | Yes I 've been looking at that and thinking we 'll take it , mm |
| 3 | Yes , I 've been , I 've been looking at this and see what I can play . |
| 4 | I 've been looking at some of the lines not as lines , but as things he has touched . |
| 5 | ‘ I 've been looking at some of those paraffin convector heaters . |
| 6 | I 've been looking at some of the old programmes that some of the fans brought from those shows , and it was interesting to look back and see the people that I travelled with . ’ |
| 7 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |
| 8 | THERE is much to do in the garden at present and I have been looking at some of the useful tools and equipment on the market . |
| 9 | And I 'd just like to take the opportunity to er emphasise the point that I have been making at this E I P that erm r regional migration from the West Yorkshire is reducing and we do n't want to create a magnet which reverses that trend . |
| 10 | I would guess that she has been hurt at some time in the past , probably having banged her head or hip . |
| 11 | You , you 've been hacking at this one bit , it 's gone too soft , look that 's why , yes , gone too soft |
| 12 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 13 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 14 | She had been propositioned at that last party by a sub-editor with bad breath , who seeing her maimed and brought down had been swift to seize the opportunity . |
| 15 | Okay right , so what we 've been looking at this week is trade in agricultural commodities , and er , possibly a little bit of GATT as well . |
| 16 | No Sally 's new at the job , we 've been working at this for for on on the technical front for some time , now let's just sit down and and work out what we 're gon na do . |
| 17 | Up to this point we have been looking at some fairly clear cases of assimilation across word boundaries . |
| 18 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 19 | They were so free in expression she wondered if they had been read at all by his parents but presumed they could hardly have escaped their eye . |
| 20 | Whether they had been worked at some preceding date is a matter of no little conjecture but is unlikely and it seems that the miners from Keswick started there in 1599 . |
| 21 | Now we have two wonderful sightscreens , and to make matters worse they have been positioned at either end of the ground . |
| 22 | If he has been known at all to movie-goers thus far , it 's been as Spike Lee 's cinematographer : even when Lee 's brashness caused you to squirm in your seat , you still have something pretty marvellous to look at , and that 's Ernest Dickerson 's work . |
| 23 | It has been excavated at several points , both during the early excavations and in connection with the west gate , revealing informative sequences of relevance to our understanding of the site 's development ( see p. 73 below ) . |
| 24 | The chronology of place-name developments was rejected by place-name scholars after seminal research by John McNeal Dodgson in 1966 and , to the extent that it has been replaced at all , place names are now seen to represent the hierarchical status of places in the landscape with no particular significance attached to when they are first recorded . |
| 25 | If merely set at a given focal length , the zoom lens will simply act as a normal though infinitely variable lens ( between its limits ) and the viewer will be unaware that it has been used at all . |
| 26 | However , it is apparently the practice that if the prisoner inquires in such a case whether the tariff has been set at 20 years , he will be told if it has been set at that period , but not if it has not . |
| 27 | On the building maintenance side , it has been looked at several times in the past . |
| 28 | Indeed would it have been told at all ? |
| 29 | But this made it so obvious who had sent this copy that he was astonished that it had been sent at all . |
| 30 | The Prime Minister and the Lord Chancellor later in the year protested with apparent truthfulness that they had been quite unaware that it had been passed at all ! . |