Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office . |
| 2 | I 'd been living in the country with my wife when she died unexpectedly . |
| 3 | I 'd been teaching in Preston it must have been three years then , and when I read that book I suddenly realized I knew nothing about Lancashire at all — not the real Lancashire . |
| 4 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 5 | I 'd been shopping in Smiths and I thought I recognised him . |
| 6 | I 'd been working in a factory , but I had to give that up because I could n't afford a nursery . |
| 7 | When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years . |
| 8 | I had been dealing in coke to a very small circle of friends , not more than half a dozen . |
| 9 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I had been reading in Shelvocke 's Voyages , a day or two before , that , while doubling Cape Horn , they frequently saw albatrosses in that latitude , the largest sort of sea-fowl … |
| 12 | Evidently deciding that prudery was the better part of valour , I hotfooted it down to the bedroom again in time to witness half the ceiling crashing in flames on to the bed I had been sleeping in moments before . |
| 13 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |
| 14 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 15 | I had been shooting in the lonely hills in the north of England . |
| 16 | Cameraman Martyn Colbeck , our Russian and Tadjik helpers and I had been filming in the mountains and soda lakes of the eastern Pamirs , a few miles from the Chinese border . |
| 17 | I 've had a great deal of fun reviewing Animation Works Interactive , so much so that I 've been staying in the office well past my normal time just to play with it . |
| 18 | So I could n't agree more , and that will be taken up in the fairly near future , following the information that I 've been gathering in the various meetings that I 've been having round the country on this . |
| 19 | Well it gives a schedule of housing conditions in Greater York erm and I 've been comparing in in turn that schedule with the schedule produced by the City Council on a more updated basis . |
| 20 | For nine years , I 've been living in unwedded bliss with my partner Christian . |
| 21 | ‘ I 've been living in fear , undermined over the past few weeks , ’ he moaned . |
| 22 | Niorin : I come from Ireland , and I 've been living in England since last summer . |
| 23 | I 've been bowling in the nets for the last two weeks . |
| 24 | ‘ Whoever it is , I 've been looking in your books and you have n't got your name in your books . |
| 25 | I 've been looking in there . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been working in a hotel since I left school — up until the flood that was . |
| 27 | I 've been working in watercolours for the last seven years , but this particular picture is quite experimental for me . |
| 28 | I 've been working in Sydney . |
| 29 | I 'm a geologist — that bit was true — and until recently I 've been working in Sydney . |
| 30 | I 've been working in our infirmary for quite a while now , that is , when I 'm not having my ordinary lessons . |