Example sentences of "been [verb] [pron] [noun] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cronenberg 's way of filming the unfilmable has been to arrange his material in a pulp noir format , laced with hallucinations , corrupt characters , and local colour ( local being studio-recreated Tangier ) . |
| 2 | How have you been justifying your existence in the last twenty-four hours and can you name the guilty man ? ’ |
| 3 | He had in fact been told his days in the sport were over . |
| 4 | Throughout the week the pupils of the council 's art class in Ballyclare High School and their tutor , Di Whitla , have been exhibiting their work in the Town Hall . |
| 5 | EVER since Copernicus removed the Earth from the centre of the Solar System , scientists — and astronomers in particular — have been rendering our place in the Universe less and less special . |
| 6 | He had been shown which locker in the room was his and told that one of his cell-mates was on work detail , the other in the exercise yard . |
| 7 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |
| 8 | It it means that they have n't been doing their duty in the winter then . |
| 9 | William Waldegrave has now been appointed his lieutenant in the grinding battle within Whitehall , against warriors who will doubtless counterattack with the saddest words of public administration : ‘ We 've always done it this way . ’ |
| 10 | Having won a libel case against British Airways over the much publicized dirty tricks , it 's set to announce losses exceeding fourteen million pounds for nineteen ninety two , and all airlines have been tightening their belts in the recession . |
| 11 | Marie had been putting her money in a machine which had a little silver crane which came down and swung round , grabbing at the prizes . |
| 12 | Since 7 January the 2nd Shock Army , the southernmost element of the Front , had been playing its part in the general Soviet counter-offensive by pushing northwards north-east of Novgorod , trying to pinch off the deep German salient across the Lovat River between Lake Ladoga and Lake Ilmen , and thus to help relieve Leningrad . |
| 13 | Because of the track , navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover . |
| 14 | Everybody , unless they 've been had their head in the ground for the last thirteen years , know damn well that they 're not going to get housed off the needs register particularly quickly and they only go to people who are most unable to be housed by any other means are going to bother even to put their names on the needs register . |