Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [v-ing] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been working in a factory , but I had to give that up because I could n't afford a nursery . |
| 2 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 3 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've been working in a hotel since I left school — up until the flood that was . |
| 5 | I 've been working in a male environment now for several years , and I 've got quite used to hearing my colleagues speculate about me and my private life ! |
| 6 | I know times I get it , like maybe just at one side , if I 've been sitting in a hard seat |
| 7 | FOR 40 years , I have been dealing in a wide variety of paintings ranging from Old Masters to French Impressionists , Dutch Romantics to modern British pictures . |
| 8 | Since Tuesday , when I went to tea with Ivy , I have been living in a dream of confusion and discomfort . |
| 9 | ‘ I have been living in a Social Services Home for about seven years . |
| 10 | ‘ I have been living in a bed and breakfast for the past 15 months with my kids and me in the one room . |
| 11 | You know , since last night , I have been indulging in a series of small fantasies … ’ |
| 12 | She 'd been browsing in a bookshop after buying a bedtime book for Kirsty when she 'd suddenly caught sight of the clock on the wall and seen , to her horror , that it was nearly five o'clock . |
| 13 | She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out . |
| 14 | A lady phoned in saying she 'd been sitting in a café when some animal rights campaigners carrying collection tins arrived and ordered a meal . |
| 15 | You 've been sitting in a side road waiting to come out , and you see a vehicle coming along and it 's got its left-hand indicator on and you think Oh lovely ! |
| 16 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
| 17 | This time there was no mistaking the command , but , short of trying out one of the manoeuvres she had been learning in a regular martial arts class , there was n't much she could do about it . |
| 18 | She had been living in a hostel for women in North London for the past year and was waiting to be re-housed . |
| 19 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 20 | And they give a , though she 's not being like , really cheeky , it 's because she 's been living in a culture for four years , where that 's the way they , they sell and buy . |
| 21 | We have been living in a jungle all our lives and we have struggled to bring our minds into cultivation but without hope and suddenly we have found this meadow of cleared land on which we can plant our gardens . |
| 22 | There seems little wrong with that , for we have been living in a fools paradise for years and also depriving the Americans of value . |
| 23 | They had been moving in a group , or trying to : actually , they had straggled widely at times . |
| 24 | Later that evening they had been sitting in a restaurant and Maggie had looked at Tom and said , her delicate face and long neck almost visibly aquiver with pleasure , |
| 25 | The TARDIS has brought the time-travellers back to Roman times — to 64 AD to be exact — and they have been holidaying in a deserted villa near a small town . |
| 26 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |
| 27 | He has been swimming in a pool somewhere , I said to myself . |
| 28 | He 'd been funny , telling stories against himself of fiascos he had survived in the theatre , and he 'd been flattering in a subtle way . |
| 29 | He 'd been living in a £500-a-week hotel suite in Nottingham , spending £2,000 a month on clothes . |
| 30 | She heard him release the breath he 'd been holding in a sigh . |