Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then when you stop dieting , the body , which has been acting in a kind of starvation mode , finds that it has become used to its new BMR and requires less calories to function . |
| 2 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |
| 3 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |
| 4 | He has been swimming in a pool somewhere , I said to myself . |
| 5 | Since a family row three weeks ago , Robert Taylor , 18 , has been sleeping in a field off the A167 near Newton Aycliffe . |
| 6 | He 'd been hiding in a woodland graveyard , only half-heartedly concealed behind one of the leaning roofed crosses . |
| 7 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 8 | He 'd been living in a £500-a-week hotel suite in Nottingham , spending £2,000 a month on clothes . |
| 9 | She heard him release the breath he 'd been holding in a sigh . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I 'd been working in a factory , but I had to give that up because I could n't afford a nursery . |
| 12 | You do n't know , I mean he could of gone if he 'd been lying in a chair wa watching the |
| 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 | ‘ The person who put this together must have been living in a box for the last 10 years . ’ |
| 16 | In repose Biff 's arm hung in mid-air ; he might have been recuperating in a wing of the Apothacarion with his limb in traction … |
| 17 | So , let's think about our objectives , first of all an objective , I might have come to Abbey Life to make money , last year , I might have been working in a factory , earning fifteen , twelve , fifteen thousand a year , and I might make my objective in my first year with Abbey Life to earn sixty thousand pounds . |
| 18 | They must have been waiting in a car , as neither wore an overcoat and both were suddenly there smack in front of me , blocking the pavement , tantalizingly close to home . |
| 19 | They had been moving in a group , or trying to : actually , they had straggled widely at times . |
| 20 | In mitigation Duncan Smith said Stevenson and his friend had been drinking in a pub and decided to take a car to get back home . |
| 21 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 22 | Recently , in fact , with only bathroom tissue , hand soap and water , I cleaned up an acrylic painting that had been hanging in a office for 24 years . |
| 23 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 24 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
| 25 | ‘ He had been living in a caravan at the back of the house . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | She had been living in a hostel for women in North London for the past year and was waiting to be re-housed . |
| 28 | The man had been writing in a book , he 'd taken the number of the car with an official air and Cormack had wondered why for a moment , then forgotten . |
| 29 | The Congress ( I ) Chief Minister , Pratap Singh Rane , who had been acting in a caretaker capacity after the legislative elections , was sworn in for a third term as Chief Minister . |
| 30 | Upon investigation it appeared that the bailie had been acting in a manner which aroused doubts about his honesty , for after a conversation with Dowan , Mungo Graeme of Gorthie informed the duke that |