Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 31 | There was a brief silence then Gerald spoke up : ‘ I 've seen the safe open several times since I 've been working in the business . |
| 32 | But mostly I 've been working in television . ’ |
| 33 | 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 ! |
| 34 | ‘ I 've been working in my surgery , perhaps we could talk there . ’ |
| 35 | I 've been working in Cleveland , US for 4 months now , and am amazed that I get more up to date information on the week 's activities than when I lived outside London ! |
| 36 | I 've been working in the sextry for four years and he 's been there all that time . |
| 37 | I 'm erm I 've been working in low cost housing , housing charities , for a very long time , with Shelter and various other charities like that , and I never cease to be amazed that the Conservative Group , here or nationally , are hostile to subsidies for council housing , because the subsidy which goes to owner-occupiers , through mortgage tax relief , is very much greater than the subsidy that goes to council housing and there 's nothing we as a Council can do about this , but I do hope that in due course we will get a fair system of subsidising houses for everybody , so that wealthy people on high incomes who are getting a big subsidy on their housing through their tax relief , erm are not getting more than people on low incomes living in council houses . |
| 38 | ‘ What I 've been doing in the last few weeks , long overdue , is to match up these various components . |
| 39 | I 've been backpacking in Europe , I love it there . |
| 40 | Well that 's the question I 've been asking in committees er because I 'm I brought this up when they did nicely when they took all the trees away from down er Long Row on the High Street . |
| 41 | Sorry , I 've been laughing in the kitchen you see , that 's what it is ! |
| 42 | I know times I get it , like maybe just at one side , if I 've been sitting in a hard seat |
| 43 | ‘ Sorry to be a pest , ’ Travis apologised , ‘ but I saw you come back without Naylor , ’ and while Leith was rapidly trying to find an excuse for her return to the house without the man everyone knew she had gone walking with , she found that Travis was too involved with his own miseries to want to delve into hers , for he went on , ‘ I 've been sitting in the library thinking about Rosemary , and getting more and more uptight about our situation , when you ran in and I started to think about phoning her . |
| 44 | For what it is worth , I have been saving in this way for years myself . |
| 45 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |
| 46 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 47 | I HAVE been reading in the News about whether or not there is some justification for today 's young men being a bit too pushy towards girls . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | Without knowing it I have been living in poverty for the past 14 years . |
| 50 | Since Tuesday , when I went to tea with Ivy , I have been living in a dream of confusion and discomfort . |
| 51 | ‘ I have been living in a Social Services Home for about seven years . |
| 52 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 53 | I have been living in the same bungalow now for 10 years , and it seems no easier now than it was 10 years ago to find staff . |
| 54 | I have been living in Britain since 1970 , almost half of my life has been spent here . |
| 55 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 56 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 57 | ‘ I have been living in a bed and breakfast for the past 15 months with my kids and me in the one room . |
| 58 | I have been trekking in Nepal several times , and so I am acquainted with the conditions that I might encounter on a winter trip . |
| 59 | The Ballet Club paid a second visit to Johannesburg in July 1944 , and John wrote to Hanns , exclaiming jubilantly that ‘ We arranged for me to have meals at the Carlton , so I have been dining in style this week ! ’ |
| 60 | Although the survey was carried out in 1987 , and events in education have moved on with amazing rapidity since then , many of the conclusions that can be drawn from the interviews seem to have retained their relevance , particularly in the context of the issue I have been exploring in this chapter . |