Example sentences of "have been standing [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A privately owned half-timbered cottage ( mostly 16th-century ) with pantiled roof and porches , it has been standing empty for years |
| 2 | NOTE Urine that has been standing some of the night is not a true specimen for testing . |
| 3 | And suddenly he remembered standing here , it was dark-green all around him , but the sky above was blue , the sun must 've been setting , it was quiet , just the creak of a tree , the whir of an insect 's wing , he 'd been standing motionless , as if in a trance , and then he heard a voice , his mother 's voice . |
| 4 | Where he might have been standing still had not the eagles lunged at him , as if moments before it fell they had sensed that some danger was there and had sought to protect him . |
| 5 | used to have to w run the old b back the old horse and cart into the co crew yard which had been standing all year with about umpteen beasts on it , trampling it down , more straw , trample it down , more straw , trample it down . |
| 6 | Gilbert had been standing next to them and almost fell down the stairs in his efforts to get away from those doors as something shouldered them open . |
| 7 | And then a sound , as if she had been standing next to a huge thunderclap . |
| 8 | He had been standing large as life beside Lady Usk , and it was plain that he knew her identity . |
| 9 | The shop had been standing empty for some time , and needed a great deal of work . |
| 10 | Now this house had been standing empty when I came in it , for twelve months . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's been standing empty for a couple of years . |