Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] have been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | But mostly I 've been working in television . ’ |
| 2 | Apparently he 's been working in Australia , on oil rigs , I believe . ’ |
| 3 | He knew the most trusted adviser of the late Tsar Peter had been a Scotsman , but there had been four Tsars since then , and there was a Tsarina , Elizabeth , on the throne , or so he had been told in Vilna . |
| 4 | A Ewe owned by farmer John Davies has lost a lamb during birth and so he 's been put in touch with Mrs Hunter Blair by the farmers union . |
| 5 | Tonight he had been immersed in scenes of Mafia violence and found himself the next moment slumped in the Chesterfield staring at silver snow on the screen . |
| 6 | Though far too small for me , the bike had been saved to be passed on to Cymbeline ; somehow it had been overlooked in the purge . |
| 7 | stuff keep the half way up my back its all padding and stuff and I 've rolled over , as I 've rolled over there 's been another one it has gone off , it felt like I 've been kicked in the back by somebody really having a go at me , it threw me and even with all that I had a like that so there not , there not kiddy toys . |
| 8 | I 've managed to subject the boots to most conditions except a thorough soaking over several days — for once we 've been basking in sunshine for weeks in Scotland , along with the sun-drenched south east ! |
| 9 | Once the Suez adventure began , and the Americans realized how totally they had been kept in the dark by London , an " anti-British frenzy " developed in Washington . |
| 10 | Now , now you 've been working in the area of AIDS for some time now , do you think that the message is getting through ? |
| 11 | Now it 's been found in a river half a mile from her home . |
| 12 | Rather it had been assumed in order that those phenomena could become intelligible to the mind . |
| 13 | Maybe she had been locked in her self-imposed prison for so long that now she was unable to control herself at all . |
| 14 | One year earlier she had been seen in our hospital for joint pain and skin lesions on the lower legs which resembled erythema nodosum . |
| 15 | After indifferent form in the early games , the first Test at Sabina Park , where four years earlier they had been annihilated in three days , was upon them . |
| 16 | Maybe they 'd been meeting in secret for a while . |
| 17 | Thirteen years earlier he had been treated in our hospital for stage IIA nodular sclerosing Hodgkin 's disease with pathological lymph nodes in the left superaclavicular region , both axillary regions , and the mediastinum . |
| 18 | Since then he has been featured in many newspaper articles . |
| 19 | From there he 'd been taken in a police van to Whitely by two police officers . |
| 20 | Indeed it has been seen in ( 212 ) above that allow can even evoke the existence of permission as a present state and leave the realization of the action permitted in the hypothetical future . |
| 21 | 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 . ’ |
| 22 | Previously he had been engaged in making a geological map of Devon and he now continued this work in an official capacity . |
| 23 | Mr Justice Jowitt told the jury that previously it had been shown in cases of alleged sexual misconduct that women may be tempted to exaggerate or fabricate . |
| 24 | I 'm a geologist — that bit was true — and until recently I 've been working in Sydney . |
| 25 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |