Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] have be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 2 | To give you some insight into the kind of research we have been doing in order to grasp the concept of innovative climate , I will present two sets of data . |
| 3 | Although the survey was carried out in 1987 , and events in education have moved on with amazing rapidity since then , many of the conclusions that can be drawn from the interviews seem to have retained their relevance , particularly in the context of the issue I have been exploring in this chapter . |
| 4 | Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street . |
| 5 | Not long before the end of term now , pooh looking forward to er , going home to get some real food inside you I dare say , as opposed to the gruel you 've been getting in hall . |
| 6 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 7 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 8 | Oh wanted a word with you see how much money you 've been putting in my , and we 're going for a mortgage now . |
| 9 | For over thirty years I have been teaching in the public schools of New York City . |
| 10 | Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect . |
| 11 | They wheeled him rapidly into Resus. , Kathleen snapping out instructions right , left and centre , but as they peeled back the blanket to examine him , even Kathleen after all the years she had been working in A and E was shocked at the extent of his injuries . |
| 12 | CLEARING up operations began yesterday after a group of travellers moved , under the threat of eviction , from a site they have been occupying in the centre of the Co . |
| 13 | Later that evening they had been sitting in a restaurant and Maggie had looked at Tom and said , her delicate face and long neck almost visibly aquiver with pleasure , |
| 14 | Should he have mentioned the strange symptoms and side-effects he had been observing in his own case ? |
| 15 | Perhaps she 'd heard his panting , and the promises he 'd been making in the dark . |
| 16 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
| 17 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 18 | But despite severe financial problems they have been growing in number and now produce around 40 per cent of Israel 's agricultural output and almost seven per cent of its industrial goods . |
| 19 | I 'm a teacher myself and if my children come home and tell me things they 've been doing in maths which might seem very perplexing to somebody who knows about modern maths , I understand the educational reason for them doing so . |
| 20 | He also told the court he had been acting in accordance with an order from Allied Forces Headquarters on 14 May 1945 . |
| 21 | He was n't wearing the suit he 'd been wearing in Furnival Gardens . |
| 22 | One Saturday night he 'd been drinking in front of the telly when he decided to phone Sheila 's place . |
| 23 | Are we looking for the year two thousand , or are we looking for a hundred years later than that , or what ? — the sort of age we have been describing in this programme ? |
| 24 | ‘ Ever since work started on the re-design of the front area we have been living in fear that we will come back on Monday morning and they will have put bricks through the windows again . ’ |
| 25 | A frisson of disbelief and unease passed though the male patrons as the woman they had been watching in simulated copulation on the screen materialised in the flesh before their very eyes . |
| 26 | She heard him release the breath he 'd been holding in a sigh . |
| 27 | Evidently deciding that prudery was the better part of valour , I hotfooted it down to the bedroom again in time to witness half the ceiling crashing in flames on to the bed I had been sleeping in moments before . |
| 28 | This time there was no mistaking the command , but , short of trying out one of the manoeuvres she had been learning in a regular martial arts class , there was n't much she could do about it . |
| 29 | Indeed , during the train journey she had been weighing in her mind the advantages of an Italian dish ‘ something with funghi ’ — as against sole in an exquisite sauce or a cut off a splendid classic sirloin . |
| 30 | Ehm er chair er Sheila from Harlow secretary of the film society which has operated here since the playhouse opened moved from the town hall er we do get people past the door we have been doing in years erm and I personally I 'm also here as an individual I 've been an arts lover for forty five years of my life in Harlow . |