Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] [adv prt] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It means the loss of hopes and plans which have been building up in the parents during the months of pregnancy . |
| 2 | And Miss Haines , as Clara suddenly realized , with a curious tremor of conviction , had actually been hanging around in the corridor waiting for her to emerge . |
| 3 | Hatton had been walking along in the dark and someone had waited for him among the willows and the brambles , the stone ready for use . |
| 4 | Midge had been waiting out in the studio for five hours , fortified by cups of tea brought to her by the friendly police constables . |
| 5 | I do n't believe that the method of selling cars with huge discounts that has been going on in the US for some time is good for the companies , and I also do n't think long term it 's good for the industrial base of the country and therefore ultimately for the customer . |
| 6 | Meanwhile , I had intervened in a wrangle which had been going on in the pages of Time and Tide over some articles Eliot had written . |
| 7 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 8 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |
| 9 | Royal , who looks like a bit he 's been carved out of rock , warned of what will happen if we follow in the wake of what 's been going on in the States . |
| 10 | It is a sort of cultural conflict which must have been going on in the husband 's mind . |
| 11 | Mm , I mean we 've been going out in the daytime , when the weather 's |
| 12 | The station has been converted to burn confiscated marijuana which has been piling up in the warehouses of the local police forces . |
| 13 | But he found that the job that awaited him there was several rungs lower than the job he had been holding down in the UK . |
| 14 | But what it did do was provide a unique workshop of the ideas that had been bubbling up in the years since the cracking of the ice in 1956 , and in a context which leapt over the boundaries of ‘ official ’ politics , whether mainstream , Marxist , anarchist , reformist , or Maoist . |
| 15 | We have established the assassin had been tramping round in the snow , yet Lady Beatrice and Rachel are wearing the same clothes as they were this morning and , as far as I know , never left the house . ’ |
| 16 | today the two counties have been playing on in the championship and here 's how it finished … they tried hard to get a result but rain stopped play … and the game ended in a draw … |
| 17 | I 've never known Ellie voluntairily stop home to cook when all of us been sitting around in the boozer chewin' the fat . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'd say you 'd been sitting out in the sun too long . ’ |
| 19 | His Teflon-coating has been peeling off in the heat of the election campaign . |