Example sentences of "[vb base] been [v-ing] in [noun] " in BNC.

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1 since you done it we 've been looking in jewellers ' shops when I go , I go up town twice a week with her , you know , carry all the bags , and er we 're looking in the jewellers ' shop and some old , some lady stood there and , she were looking I says , come on they do n't wear marriage ri , wedding rings there !
2 Niorin : I come from Ireland , and I 've been living in England since last summer .
3 ‘ I 've been living in fear , undermined over the past few weeks , ’ he moaned .
4 ‘ You 've been dealing in magic , ’ Bloxham hollered .
5 But you 've been dabbling in things that do n't concern you .
6 Not long before the end of term now , pooh looking forward to er , going home to get some real food inside you I dare say , as opposed to the gruel you 've been getting in hall .
7 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 .
8 I 'm a teacher myself and if my children come home and tell me things they 've been doing in maths which might seem very perplexing to somebody who knows about modern maths , I understand the educational reason for them doing so .
9 Griddles and flaming wheels seem a pretty soft option when you 've been sitting in pitch darkness with your pants full of scorpions .
10 ‘ They 've been arriving in scores , each delegation with one appointed English speaker ’ said an official .
11 I 've been working in watercolours for the last seven years , but this particular picture is quite experimental for me .
12 Er , we 've been working in Harlow for a couple of years now and as you may know , we as Paul said , finished the first phase of Three Hills which is the Ayletts Field scheme which provided sixty six properties for a low cost home ownership and two special needs properties and we 'll also be starting in the next couple of months er , on providing low cost home ownership in Church Langley erm it 's funded by yo , yourselves .
13 But mostly I 've been working in television . ’
14 I 've been working in Sydney .
15 I 'm a geologist — that bit was true — and until recently I 've been working in Sydney .
16 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 !
17 I 've been backpacking in Europe , I love it there .
18 The staff say you always look as if you 've been sleeping in haystacks these days .
19 If learners can see and recognise the language they 've been studying in use in realistic situations this has two benefits :
20 A resident of the North Shore will look at a wave and say , ‘ Bad weather they 've been having in Alaska ’ , or ‘ I see Siberia is in trouble again ’ .
21 I 've managed to subject the boots to most conditions except a thorough soaking over several days — for once we 've been basking in sunshine for weeks in Scotland , along with the sun-drenched south east !
22 Voluntary groups from all over Scotland have been meeting in Edinburgh to decide how to help children and families infected with HIV .
23 Leaders of the Councils , none of them Tory controlled , have been meeting in London today to plan a campaign .
24 Experts from all areas of the water industry have been meeting in Oxford to look at how to deal with such problems .
25 Fans of the mystery novel have been meeting in Oxford to celebrate the centenary of one of its most successful crime writers .
26 But were it not for the perceived economic might of a more unified Economic Community , the dozen or so nations of the Pacific Rim , who have been meeting in Australia , might not have bothered .
27 Although lasers have been dropping in price , you 'll still need a budget of around £500 , whereas inkjets start at around £150 .
28 I have been trekking in Nepal several times , and so I am acquainted with the conditions that I might encounter on a winter trip .
29 Mr Lamont said : ‘ The key to an improved trade performance lies in the competitiveness of our products — and the signs are encouraging : earnings are now growing more slowly than at any time for 25 years ; labour productivity has been rising rapidly , and while unit wage costs in manufacturing have been rising in Japan and Germany , here they showed no increase at all during 1992 .
30 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 ! ’
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