Example sentences of "[pers pn] has been [v-ing] in [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She has been teaching in North Kensington . |
| 2 | Vic knows what it is : a book entitled Enjoy Your Menopause , which one of Marjorie 's friends at the Weight Watchers ' club has lent her , and which she has been reading in bed , without much show of conviction , and falling asleep over , for the past week or two . |
| 3 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 4 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 5 | He has been living in Thailand , has a Thai wife and speaks Thai . |
| 6 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 7 | Breeding was confirmed ten years later in the Kent marshes , and it has been increasing in numbers and colonising more reed beds in the years since . |
| 8 | It has been standing in water all day , and it has been well scraped before it came out this evening . |
| 9 | The smaller , darker mountain type with black points and mucosae is very like the Piedmont of northwest Italy and is ideal for extensive systems , but it has been declining in numbers over the last 50 years and by 1980 was down to about 35,000 . |