Example sentences of "[pron] have be [v-ing] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office . |
| 2 | I 'd been living in the country with my wife when she died unexpectedly . |
| 3 | I 'd been working in a factory , but I had to give that up because I could n't afford a nursery . |
| 4 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 5 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
| 6 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |
| 7 | I had been shooting in the lonely hills in the north of England . |
| 8 | Cameraman Martyn Colbeck , our Russian and Tadjik helpers and I had been filming in the mountains and soda lakes of the eastern Pamirs , a few miles from the Chinese border . |
| 9 | I 've had a great deal of fun reviewing Animation Works Interactive , so much so that I 've been staying in the office well past my normal time just to play with it . |
| 10 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 11 | I 've been bowling in the nets for the last two weeks . |
| 12 | ‘ I 've been working in a hotel since I left school — up until the flood that was . |
| 13 | I 've been working in a male environment now for several years , and I 've got quite used to hearing my colleagues speculate about me and my private life ! |
| 14 | There was a brief silence then Gerald spoke up : ‘ I 've seen the safe open several times since I 've been working in the business . |
| 15 | I 've been working in the sextry for four years and he 's been there all that time . |
| 16 | ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components . |
| 17 | Sorry , I 've been laughing in the kitchen you see , that 's what it is ! |
| 18 | I know times I get it , like maybe just at one side , if I 've been sitting in a hard seat |
| 19 | ‘ Sorry to be a pest , ’ Travis apologised , ‘ but I saw you come back without Naylor , ’ and while Leith was rapidly trying to find an excuse for her return to the house without the man everyone knew she had gone walking with , she found that Travis was too involved with his own miseries to want to delve into hers , for he went on , ‘ I 've been sitting in the library thinking about Rosemary , and getting more and more uptight about our situation , when you ran in and I started to think about phoning her . |
| 20 | I thought , I thought someone had been smoking in the toilets . |
| 21 | I HAVE been reading in the News about whether or not there is some justification for today 's young men being a bit too pushy towards girls . |
| 22 | FOR 40 years , I have been dealing in a wide variety of paintings ranging from Old Masters to French Impressionists , Dutch Romantics to modern British pictures . |
| 23 | Since Tuesday , when I went to tea with Ivy , I have been living in a dream of confusion and discomfort . |
| 24 | ‘ I have been living in a Social Services Home for about seven years . |
| 25 | ‘ I have been living in a bed and breakfast for the past 15 months with my kids and me in the one room . |
| 26 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 27 | I have been living in the same bungalow now for 10 years , and it seems no easier now than it was 10 years ago to find staff . |
| 28 | For over thirty years I have been teaching in the public schools of New York City . |
| 29 | ‘ I might not be the youngest but I have a great deal of knowledge which I have been using in the field of local and regional government for years . ’ |
| 30 | You know , since last night , I have been indulging in a series of small fantasies … ’ |