Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Street development Sue loved was working in Alf 's grocery shop with her long-term adversary , The Street 's pint-sized puritan Ivy Brennan , played by Sue 's great pal Lynne Perrie . |
| 2 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 3 | The IDB president , Enrique Iglesias of Uruguay , had said on April 4 that although Japanese investment had been rising in Chile , Mexico , Brazil and Venezuela , " we see potential for much more " . |
| 4 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
| 5 | I can certainly agree with my hon. Friend — that incident was most regrettable , particularly in light of the fact that the human rights record of Indonesia had been improving in recent years . |
| 6 | These were the first multiparty elections to be held in the Soviet Union , the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet having in December 1989 abolished the constitutionally guaranteed communist monopoly of power [ see p. 37129 ] and having earlier in February passed a new law regulating the establishment and functioning of new political parties ; in fact new or revived political parties had been emerging in Lithuania since the beginning of 1989 [ see pp. 36487 ; 36854 ] . |
| 7 | He was conscious that Therese had been engaging in ‘ business ’ but had n't appreciated how it had looked from the front until it was too late to do anything about it . |
| 8 | In addition the gas industry had been investing in expensive pipeline and other transportation systems to import gas from Canada , Mexico and Algeria , in anticipation of a continuing supply shortfall which the Natural Gas Policy Act effectively removed , in the short term at least . |
| 9 | The 20,000 urns and vases had been lying in deep salt water for 302 years . |
| 10 | In 1911 Wren had been working in India for less than eight years . |
| 11 | John Dalton eventually elicited the truth of his identity from him and offered him sanctuary as a hermit in his own home ( perhaps Richard had been reconnoitring in his disappearance before dinner ) and at his own expense . |
| 12 | Aoun had been living in the French embassy in Beirut since Syrian and Lebanese forces toppled his " government " in October 1990 [ see p. 37792 ] . |
| 13 | Vesa had been living in a small apartment in the Mids since their aunt had died a year back . |
| 14 | The hammer had been lying in the garden and Youngs had just picked it up . |
| 15 | The trial , on 4 February , heard that Shiloh had been running in a race at Carfin dog track in August last year when he broke his leg . |
| 16 | I would not presume to add anything to the Word of God but I have a sneaking suspicion that if Isaiah had been writing in the 1990s he might have added a phrase . |
| 17 | The usher explained that Eva had been working in Africa and was now principal of an international college . |
| 18 | Jim feels ‘ as if a demon had been whispering in his ear ’ and goes to his death with the whisper still sounding , killed by the people he had tried , in one final , tragic mistake , to save for the future . |
| 19 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 20 | His solicitor Bob Emuss said that the defendant , who until February had been living in Surrey , had wanted to move to the Kingsley area . |
| 21 | It was apparent that Labour had done well in the old inner cities , which the population had been leaving in the previous decade , partly owing to the growth of suburbs , partly owing to the effects of wartime bombing . |
| 22 | He said Catholics had been living in fear of attack by the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and called on Mr Taylor to withdraw his comments . |
| 23 | Another one has taken a quick look and walked away : Motorola Inc chairman George Fisher said the chief executive position at IBM Corp did not interest him : he wrote to employees saying that speculation about the post had been building in the news media and that his name had been mentioned — ‘ though IBM is a fine company , I am not interested in the position ; I plan to stay at Motorola where my work is challenging , exciting and rewarding . ’ |
| 24 | Unrest had been growing in the Transylvanian region ever since December 1989 when the new National Salvation Front ( NSF ) government had reached an agreement with the Hungarian government to restore ethnic and cultural rights denied to the Hungarian community of 2,000,000 people by the former regime of Nicolae Ceausescu . |
| 25 | For some years now Pecham had been lecturing in Rome where he was noted for his austerity , his learning and his authoritarianism . |
| 26 | Mr Wilson had been celebrating in an aunt 's house just after tea when he disappeared , and the family had assumed he had gone home . ’ |
| 27 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 28 | Western reports said that troops had been massing in the region since December 1990 . |
| 29 | At the time Patten had been sitting in his Smith Square office , gently smoothing the bags beneath his eyes . |
| 30 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |