Example sentences of "i have be [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |
| 2 | I 'd been working in a factory , but I had to give that up because I could n't afford a nursery . |
| 3 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But back in Cuzco I had to fight to recall the strength I had found ; force myself to remember I had been lost in a sixty-million-year-old forest but had found the still centre . |
| 6 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 7 | It was as though I had been caught in a wild torrent of a rampaging river . |
| 8 | Please recall how I 've been penned in a sanctum on a planet for most of my days . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been working in a hotel since I left school — up until the flood that was . |
| 10 | I 've been working in a male environment now for several years , and I 've got quite used to hearing my colleagues speculate about me and my private life ! |
| 11 | Gwen will be thinking I 've been put in a dungeon . |
| 12 | I 've been to work in a bicycle shop . ’ |
| 13 | I know times I get it , like maybe just at one side , if I 've been sitting in a hard seat |
| 14 | FOR 40 years , I have been dealing in a wide variety of paintings ranging from Old Masters to French Impressionists , Dutch Romantics to modern British pictures . |
| 15 | Since Tuesday , when I went to tea with Ivy , I have been living in a dream of confusion and discomfort . |
| 16 | ‘ I have been living in a Social Services Home for about seven years . |
| 17 | ‘ I have been living in a bed and breakfast for the past 15 months with my kids and me in the one room . |
| 18 | You know , since last night , I have been indulging in a series of small fantasies … ’ |