Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] in [noun] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , a number of political parties and movements have been operating in Lithuania for some time , as in Estonia and Latvia ; the constitutional change merely recognises the existing situation . |
| 2 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 3 | The Cossarts were Huguenots but had been living in Ireland for many years . |
| 4 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 5 | And you could live in the country on what you 're wasting in rent for this dump ! ’ |
| 6 | Bruce Springsteen has been pulling in crowds for more than a decade . |
| 7 | Cricket in Australia had been declining in popularity for some years , not helped by an abject England team two seasons before , and the excitement that West Indies generated by their enterprising play was unbounded , culminating in a vast ticker-tape send-off when the tour was over . |
| 8 | The two young people had been sitting in silence for most of the time Nahum had been upstairs , Seb gazing morosely into the fire and Carrie reading at the kitchen table . |
| 9 | Girls had obviously been standing in line for this man from the first day he 'd put on long trousers — or even earlier , she thought grimly . |
| 10 | This brother had been working in Derby for some considerable time . |