Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 2 | For nine years , I 've been living in unwedded bliss with my partner Christian . |
| 3 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 4 | Mum Cheryl needs a heart-lung transplant but she has been waiting in vain for a donor since January . |
| 5 | She had been moving in large ellipses , crossing and recrossing her path in a complicated pattern . |
| 6 | She had been dressed in bridal white , walking up the aisle of a church — towards Hugh . |
| 7 | As though she had been doused in cold water , she stiffened and moved away . |
| 8 | Attention was first drawn to them in 1988 when a 17-year-old resident complained she had been held in continuous confinement for seven weeks and forcibly injected with a sedative . |
| 9 | She had been held in high esteem by numerous people who all wanted to pay their respect . |
| 10 | Up popped a short replay of the flight , and a message saying : ‘ You have been killed in close combat with the enemy . |
| 11 | are napkins that we 've been buying in antique fairs . |
| 12 | ‘ We 've been criticised in various quarters , but we used it as motivation before we met and beat Tipperary last month . |
| 13 | ‘ We 've been criticised in various quarters , but we used it as motivation before we met and beat Tipperary last month . |
| 14 | We have been living in exciting times and it has needed a strong hand to keep order in the town , where all the disorderly elements tried to take advantage of the situation . |
| 15 | The most recent has been from the late 1970s through the 1980s , and if we think of those years as one of only four periods of major structural change in nearly two centuries we can appreciate that we have been living in interesting times . |
| 16 | Allow your tiles to acclimatise at room temperature for at least 24 hours before laying — especially if they 've been stored in cold conditions |
| 17 | His face had an unpleasant shine to it , the kind of shine you get on the walls of places where they 've been cooking in cheap fat since for ever . |
| 18 | I still number some of them as personal friends all these years later , but at the time what struck me was their unbelievable competence and sheer quality compared with the wretchedly small scope they had been given in prewar Britain . |
| 19 | A frisson of disbelief and unease passed though the male patrons as the woman they had been watching in simulated copulation on the screen materialised in the flesh before their very eyes . |
| 20 | They had been talking in low voices . |
| 21 | They had been paddling in tension-filled silence for some time when he spoke . |
| 22 | These smaller dunes were distinct from the level ground on which they stood , as if they had been tipped in discrete heaps by the workmen 's lorry . |
| 23 | During the past decade the poverty stricken countries of the South have been paying far more money to the rich North than they have been receiving in new money . |
| 24 | The majority of doctors are simply not aware of the dangers attached to Depo-Provera and other injectable contraceptives , nor that they have been prohibited in other countries . |
| 25 | I am sure that , subject to Mr. Speaker 's ruling , it will be in order to discuss these matters — I know that they have been raised in previous autumn statement debates . |
| 26 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns in a series of changes designed to breathe new life into the programme . |
| 27 | But they have been replaced in recent years by unknowns . |
| 28 | So , getting down to specifics , the two species mentioned both make excellent aquarium subjects , the only cause for concern being whether they have been maintained in brackish water or already acclimatised to freshwater if you wish to maintain them in this environment . |
| 29 | He says ‘ His rules made good sense then and they make better sense now as the pressures grow inexorably , yet they have been ignored in certain sensitive areas , with results which are both plain and heart-rending to see . ’ |
| 30 | Piling on the confusion , Ramish Vassen , a Cape Town lawyer representing three of the prisoners , said he went yesterday to Pollsmoor prison , where they have been kept in recent years , to deliver a suit for one of his clients , Elias Motosaledi . |