Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 2 | I guess I 've been getting upset for too long when it was n't even necessary . |
| 3 | I have been keeping fit with swimming . |
| 4 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 5 | She felt great , better rested than she 'd felt for weeks now , the little aches of fatigue she 'd been growing used to now all miraculously ironed out . |
| 6 | It was again as if she had been struck , her hands barely moving along the surface of the dresser she had been wiping clean of dust , her head going low , and when she finished she went to put the damp cloth carefully beside the sink , moving a simmering saucepan from the hotplate . |
| 7 | Re-rigging the ship for an Antarctic voyage inside of a week , after she had been lying idle for over a year , was quite impossible . |
| 8 | She had been sitting still in her seat . |
| 9 | But er according to Sharon she 's been sitting alone in er bed and breakfast and erm |
| 10 | We 'd been playing safe for our own survival , and scores of heterosexuals went unchallenged in their continued acts of heterosexism . |
| 11 | They 'd been sitting still for too long . |
| 12 | Peter Bateman of Rentokil says there 's a reason for their bad behaviour — they 've been getting drunk on rotten fruit . |
| 13 | Lots of inquiries about Foster and Allen they 're coming on the programme later they 've just got number one for the first time with their new video with their new single I do n't know I 'm not quite sure we 'll find out when they get here well they 've just got number one for the first time and they 've been trying hard for a long time . |
| 14 | I 've filmed the training sessions where they have been practising collapsing on purpose to cancel out our traditional strength in this department . |
| 15 | It is only when you stop scanning the horizon for monumental shapes that you realise they have been looming unnoticed in the foreground all along . |
| 16 | A privately owned half-timbered cottage ( mostly 16th-century ) with pantiled roof and porches , it has been standing empty for years |
| 17 | It had been lying empty for months , he said . |
| 18 | It had been lying idle since a Saturday afternoon in October , with begonia tubers in its grass-box and a bundle of yellowing newspapers balanced on its engine . |
| 19 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 20 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |
| 21 | A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning . |
| 22 | He had been feeling cold for some time . |
| 23 | It 's been going ongoing for eighteen months two years change it |
| 24 | ‘ It 's been standing empty for a couple of years . |
| 25 | Now , with accountants trying to find whether pension money was used to help Oxford out of their financial difficulties , he 's coming to terms with the possibility he 's been supporting United in more ways than one … |