Example sentences of "been [v-ing] at [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 2 | For a long time now , they have n't been looking at each other . |
| 3 | But something about your comments worries me a great deal , and that 's the fact that many women tutors , you say , have been looking at this issue , but they have n't looked at the major part of the issue , which is from the students ' perspectives and the problem that goes on between students . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | " I 've been looking at these holes . |
| 6 | My wife has been looking at some furniture catalogues and tells me we would need about £1000 per chair . |
| 7 | How long have you been living at this address ? |
| 8 | Mr Campbell said that during the first incident , when Mr Friel and the two younger accused had been shouting at each other in the shopping centre , the lawyer had struck the 15-year-old on the face with the dog leash . |
| 9 | After all , the Central Council of Physical Recreation — of which the Duke is president — and the Sports Council , the two most powerful bodies in British sport , have been sniping at each other for years . |
| 10 | Choose one of the four and try to work out what he or she must have been doing at each stage of the carnival . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 13 | Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover . |