Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 2 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 3 | Except for it 's dead hot still if you 're not careful , if you 've been cooking it in the over or something |
| 4 | Yet anyone who has been using one in the last few months will know , the accuracy of the sets in winter can be very poor . |
| 5 | He 's been interesting himself in the new C.O. , Brenda Pridmore . |
| 6 | Dunwoody had in the past won on Norton 's Coin and would have been riding him in the Gold Cup had Desert Orchid been absent . |
| 7 | One of the troubles with wood has always been getting it in the right sizes and making sure that it is free from hidden defects . |
| 8 | By the time they had run the half-mile back to their barracks the tiger that had been stalking them in the penumbra had emerged from his cover . |
| 9 | The stuff they 've been giving me in the ward was like a milk soup . |
| 10 | The answer had been staring him in the face . |
| 11 | It 's been staring me in the face . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's been staring me in the face , ’ Carlson continued . |
| 13 | Anyway , you know , I 'd been er , it has been staring me in the face for so often . |
| 14 | ‘ Your deadly weapon has been staring you in the face from the moment you first arrived here , Fakrid , ’ he said . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's been staring us in the face all this time . |
| 16 | Actually , as R. A. Fisher , one of the founding fathers of what is now called neo-Darwinism , has pointed out , this fact of particulate inheritance has always been staring us in the face , every time we think about sex . |
| 17 | so I 've been putting them in the washing machine so maybe |
| 18 | While we had been lording it in the Solent , Alert had been making a name for herself in Shetland as a stand in for Venturous . |
| 19 | He might have been receiving her in the best parlour on a Sunday afternoon . |
| 20 | ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier ! |
| 21 | You would n't call it the best buildup you ever seen and after a little bit of scrappy play which Pisa failed to get the ball away , it fell inviting on the edge of the area , and he struck it with all the confidence and aplomb a a player who 's been planting 'em in the back of the net all season . |