Example sentences of "been [v-ing] on [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could have been walking on another planet The flat , moonlight illuminated landscape , interrupted by large and small pools of bright water seemed unreal . |
| 2 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 3 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 4 | She 's been living on borrowed time for a long while . |
| 5 | A whole family employed in the Midlands engineering industry have been living on supplementary benefit for two years : the grandparents in their mid-40s , two married sons with children and a teenager living at home . |
| 6 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 7 | By 1600 hours the load on PTA Sir Geraint , Which has been going on all afternoon , is complete to the Chief Officer 's satisfaction . |
| 8 | The stake out has been going on all day . |
| 9 | Preparations for the Queen 's visit to the new unit have been going on all day . |
| 10 | He 's been going on all day old boy . |
| 11 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 12 | This mass migration has been going on this country since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution , and continues today with the establishment of the new towns , the most recent of which is Milton Keynes , the focus of the study . |
| 13 | Because Edith now Edith was going away for some unknown reason , I do n't know , she must have been going on another holiday anyhow . |
| 14 | So why the population should have been growing on this scale I think is er a question that we ca n't answer very easily . |
| 15 | Anyway erm we 've been hearing on this programme recently of course that er people are against hunting against fishing er they say it 's cruel . |
| 16 | I do hope the members will recognise that the service has not be sitting on its laurels er between inspectors ' reports but that we have been modelling on one quarterly to er correct any omissions with respect to boundary or to make the necessary improvements in the service erm as , as recommended by the inspect and supported by members . |
| 17 | THOUSANDS of homes have been relying on stored water supplies following a discharge of diesel oil into the River Tees . |
| 18 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 19 | His colleague Gwyn Meirion-Jones , had been working on various building types beginning with peasant houses . |
| 20 | I 've been working on that part of my game and it came off tonight . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 22 | Additionally , the fact that this part of the movement was written out by Leopold suggests that Mozart may have been working on another part of the symphony while his father was copying the part that already existed . |
| 23 | Because the way that I erm , I 've been working on this procedure and in fact I sense this too , and I have most of what was currently there for research project , project related sub-contracting , in other words sub-contracting with B P or if necessary , which I felt that more or less covered and what it was n't covering was when a Marie type situation on software , where I was going to put a different section , which is where the report , when it 's on research project related company facts , then I pay for the software . |
| 24 | BGS has been working on this problem for many years , and this year enlarged the scope of its studies to include a site where such a solvent had been detected in a production borehole . |
| 25 | ‘ I 've been working on this project for two years — two full years with God knows how many people involved . |
| 26 | ‘ We have been working on this project for 14 months , and it 's been difficult to persuade people that we have no political objectives . |
| 27 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 28 | I find myself alone with the steward who tells me has been working on this line for the past twenty-five years . |
| 29 | I have been working on this book about the Prince of Palatine for over 25 years ; I 'll never finish it , but who cares , it 's interesting , especially since I can read seventeenth-century German which very few people can . ’ |
| 30 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |