Example sentences of "have been standing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think we would 've been standing outside the gates . |
| 2 | There can be no doubt that in the 112 years it has been standing on the embankment it has become a part of the London scene . |
| 3 | Glen Plake 's hair has been standing on end ever since he started watching his own ski movies . |
| 4 | Cheryl has been standing inside the front room , looking out of the window , waiting for me . |
| 5 | It has been standing in water all day , and it has been well scraped before it came out this evening . |
| 6 | But when I put the phone down I find he has been standing in the doorway . |
| 7 | He 's going to be ages , thought Juliet desperately , suddenly realising she 'd been standing with her hands clenched together , and her eyes screwed tightly as if to hear better . |
| 8 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |
| 9 | th you er I mean if it were very heavy you 'd almost sort of be prepared for it to go , but you know when you 're s s standing with a , something quite light , and you might have been standing with it a little while in your hand , and then suddenly the hand goes and ca n't you see that 's ve that 's very upsetting , it makes you not very confident . |
| 10 | She felt as though , had she been a dog , all her hair would have been standing on end . |
| 11 | ‘ He might have been standing near the edge and fallen after being struck . |
| 12 | She was discussing problems in Lee 's living-room but she could have been standing in front of a giant black door in the middle of a forest . |
| 13 | Meanwhile , the school 's RFFS ( rescue and fire-fighting service ) person who had been standing outside the school ran 150 metres to the RFFS vehicle parked by the control room . |
| 14 | Immediately , the cameramen who had been standing at the sides of the rows of chairs moved , and the flash of lights and the clicks of their equipment bewildered him slightly . |
| 15 | She guessed that he had been standing at the window or listening for the sound of her key in the lock . |
| 16 | For the past hour we had been standing at the top of a Norfolk heath in swirling snow . |
| 17 | As she had come round the corner of the house from putting her bicycle in the old stable block , Inspector Blakelock had been standing at the front door almost as if he were waiting for her . |
| 18 | Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover . |
| 19 | It was decided in 1985 that the maypole , which had been standing since 1953 , was no longer safe and should be replaced . |
| 20 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 21 | Fenella had been standing towards the back of the Robe-room , half hidden by the racks of shimmering robes , but Caspar had been in the centre of the room , midway between two of the racks . |
| 22 | Captain Green , 41 , had been standing with other men from the Royal Artillery 's 32nd Heavy Regiment after a training exercise in Alberta , Canada , when he was hit . |
| 23 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 24 | ‘ Toe-rag ! ’ he muttered , picking up the drink that had been standing on the glass above the labyrinth of numbers and wires . |
| 25 | She had been standing on the pavement , holding some silly banner — ‘ EDUCATION CUTS ARE NOT COMIC ’ , or something like that — talking and laughing excitedly with a big-bosomed woman stuffed into a scarlet ski-suit and pink moon boots , and he remembered thinking to himself : so it 's finally happened — designer industrial action . |
| 26 | She had been standing on her own , holding a teacup in front of her , not looking about her , but rather fixedly out of the window , as though she expected no one to approach and invited no one . |
| 27 | The young man had been standing on the platform at Portslade station in East Sussex yesterday shortly before the London to Brighton train passed . |
| 28 | She had been standing on the bank above him with her booted feet apart , her hands jammed into the pockets of her tight-fitting breeches , and for a fleeting instant he looked at her appraisingly as he had done at the reception . |
| 29 | A herd of cows had been standing on the other side , and Blunt watched them stampede away , fanning out like clumsy messengers with news for all parts . |
| 30 | The two bungalows in question , though , had been standing from the year dot . |