Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] been [v-ing] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 2 | In addition the gas industry had been investing in expensive pipeline and other transportation systems to import gas from Canada , Mexico and Algeria , in anticipation of a continuing supply shortfall which the Natural Gas Policy Act effectively removed , in the short term at least . |
| 3 | His bait had been lying in three inches of water ! |
| 4 | It was hard luck on Steinmark , that went without saying , but if the man had been lurking in disreputable quarters and lurching home drunk , it was his own fault . |
| 5 | There seems little doubt that suspicion and resentment had been festering in Pakistani minds since long before this series began . |
| 6 | The conversation had been unsettling in other ways . |
| 7 | The vessel Yeremi had been riding in scant tens of seconds earlier erupted , disintegrated . |
| 8 | The same production had been playing in six or seven theatres in Britain already , and no fire officer in any of those places had found any problem . |