Example sentences of "[verb] [be] [verb] [pers pn] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 Anyway , you know , I 'd been er , it has been staring me in the face for so often .
2 ‘ Your deadly weapon has been staring you in the face from the moment you first arrived here , Fakrid , ’ he said .
3 ‘ The need to intern is staring us in the face , ’ he said .
4 " All I want is to see her in a place where she 'll be cared for .
5 What you wan na do is leave it in the squash club , in the actual er court
6 We 're , we 're sort of just about , you know there 's the last minute things to put in , but , barring that , what we 've done is to put it in a lot of small bags rather than big cases
7 As you can see , so far six hundred organizations have registered with us and what we 've done is put them in a rather , rather flash booklet and the idea is that youngsters , their parents , teachers , youth leaders , scout leaders , anybody , gets hold of one of these booklets and in it , it tells them how to go sailing .
8 On the one hand what the gay movement had done was to involve me in a very intense one-to-one relationship , a couple relationship , and at the same time the ideology that the movement was instilling in me was away from the idea of couple relationships and away from the idea that sex should be conventionally tied to relationships or a single relationship .
9 So when the master comes back and says to then What have you done with your talents ? one the first servant shouts , Here , here are ten for your one , Here are five for your one , and he 's very cross with the third servant because he said , What 's the purpose of giving me giving you this money if all you 're going to do is hide it in the drawer ?
10 The only thing I 'm asking you to do is put them in the diary now .
11 All he wants to do is put you in a cage . ’
12 Tony found that the best thing to do was to put her in the buggy and push her round the town , or take her to the park .
13 Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent .
14 He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon .
15 When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim .
16 By the time they had run the half-mile back to their barracks the tiger that had been stalking them in the penumbra had emerged from his cover .
17 ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop !
18 ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier !
19 While we had been lording it in the Solent , Alert had been making a name for herself in Shetland as a stand in for Venturous .
20 The answer had been staring him in the face .
21 Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something
22 so I 've been putting them in the washing machine so maybe
23 The stuff they 've been giving me in the ward was like a milk soup .
24 You would n't call it the best buildup you ever seen and after a little bit of scrappy play which Pisa failed to get the ball away , it fell inviting on the edge of the area , and he struck it with all the confidence and aplomb a a player who 's been planting 'em in the back of the net all season .
25 It 's been staring me in the face . ’
26 ‘ It 's been staring me in the face , ’ Carlson continued .
27 ‘ It 's been staring us in the face all this time .
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