Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the same courage she showed in the playground , Howey has been competing in senior international events since the age of 15 , winning the world and European junior championships as well as senior bronze and silver medals at world and European level . |
| 2 | The largest gathering of American cars outside the United States has been assembling in the region . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | In 1911 Wren had been working in India for less than eight years . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Aoun had been living in the French embassy in Beirut since Syrian and Lebanese forces toppled his " government " in October 1990 [ see p. 37792 ] . |
| 9 | Vesa had been living in a small apartment in the Mids since their aunt had died a year back . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As I see it , Rocky 's been playing in the wide midfield role ( more or less a direct replacement for Strach ) , with Fairclough playing as a direct replacement for Batty , and Macca and Speed in more central roles . |
| 12 | Leonie von Wilckens has been working in this area for over thirty years from her base at the German National Museum in Nuremberg , home of a major textile collection . |
| 13 | The Wales-based artist Alex Beleschenko has been working in recent years on large-scale architectural commissions for stained glass . |
| 14 | Rennie McOwan has been hillwalking in Scotland for over 30 years and is the author of nine books on the outdoors |
| 15 | Rennie McOwan has been hillwalking in Scotland for over 30 years and is the author of nine books on the outdoors |
| 16 | Rennie McOwan has been hillwalking in Scotland for over 30 years and is the author of nine books on the outdoors |
| 17 | Rennie McOwan has been hillwalking in Scotland for over 30 years and is the author of nine books on the outdoors |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The usher explained that Eva had been working in Africa and was now principal of an international college . |
| 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 | Nigel 's been living in West Malvern for about two years now . |
| 22 | Voluntary groups from all over Scotland have been meeting in Edinburgh to decide how to help children and families infected with HIV . |
| 23 | Mr. Bill Walker : The Hon. Gentleman will be aware that since its inception the SDA has been investing in this way throughout Scotland and in companies . |
| 24 | Ever since Munro visited the area on his mammoth feat of cataloguing , and inexplicably rejected the locals ' claim of its 3000 foot stature for his original table of 283 Munros ( the figure has now been cut to 277 ) , Foinavon has been lurking in the wings . |
| 25 | C. As a port , Bristol has been growing in size and trade . |
| 26 | For some years now Pecham had been lecturing in Rome where he was noted for his austerity , his learning and his authoritarianism . |
| 27 | 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 . ’ |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 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 . |