Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |
| 2 | I 'd been working in a factory , but I had to give that up because I could n't afford a nursery . |
| 3 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But back in Cuzco I had to fight to recall the strength I had found ; force myself to remember I had been lost in a sixty-million-year-old forest but had found the still centre . |
| 6 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 7 | It was as though I had been caught in a wild torrent of a rampaging river . |
| 8 | Please recall how I 've been penned in a sanctum on a planet for most of my days . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been working in a hotel since I left school — up until the flood that was . |
| 10 | 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 ! |
| 11 | Gwen will be thinking I 've been put in a dungeon . |
| 12 | I 've been to work in a bicycle shop . ’ |
| 13 | I know times I get it , like maybe just at one side , if I 've been sitting in a hard seat |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Since Tuesday , when I went to tea with Ivy , I have been living in a dream of confusion and discomfort . |
| 16 | ‘ I have been living in a Social Services Home for about seven years . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been living in a bed and breakfast for the past 15 months with my kids and me in the one room . |
| 18 | You know , since last night , I have been indulging in a series of small fantasies … ’ |
| 19 | Then when you stop dieting , the body , which has been acting in a kind of starvation mode , finds that it has become used to its new BMR and requires less calories to function . |
| 20 | Such an example is the alternation between [ in ] and [ i ? ] on the ing form of verbs , which has been studied in a number of places . |
| 21 | If , for example , I am engaged in reading a text on a subject in which I am well versed ( where the ideational or content schema is familiar ) , which has been written in a manner conventionally associated with writing on this subject ( where the interpersonal or formal schema is familiar ) , then I shall only need to pay attention to the linguistic signs to the extent that they key in this schematic knowledge and indicate how it is to be extended . |
| 22 | Team Pension News , which has been written in a bright , punchy style , carries an in-depth analysis of how money from the Mirror pension fund was misappropriated by Maxwell and an explanation of how a repeat can be avoided . |
| 23 | However , there is one kind of measure which , though still affected by many of the variables mentioned above , may help us to conceptualize the undergraduate curriculum in relation to employment ; namely the occupational distribution of graduates in any one subject , which has been analysed in a recent paper by Tarsh ( 1988 ) in terms of the relative importance of direct , subject skills , and indirect , general skills . |
| 24 | This is not to rule out the possibility of language convergence in terms of grammar , lexis and phonology , which has been reported in a number of cases . |
| 25 | One of these is the tiny Fender 's Blue butterfly , Icaricia icarioides fenderi , a colony of which has been spotted in a remote area of Oregon 's Willamette Valley after not having been seen since 1937 . |
| 26 | And when the needles , which had been kept in a plastic container , were sent away for analysis traces of amphetamine were detected . |
| 27 | They had stolen my good oilskins , but the thieves had never found my small stash of money which had been hidden in a redundant sea-cock , nor had they found the old Webley.455 revolver that I had hidden deep in Masquerade 's bilges . |
| 28 | The worst affected was a 1935 Lagonda tourer which had been stored in a barn for some years before passing into the Museum 's hands . |
| 29 | Conversely , many of those in the amalgamated force who had previously worn helmets in their earlier life and had been moved into flat caps in 1969 welcomed the return to ‘ natural ’ apparel and their own version of a correct bodily disposition which had been prescribed in a 1958 edition of the Northumberland County Police Standing Orders . |
| 30 | The pain in his ribs , three of which had been crushed in a recent collision , was almost unbearable . |