Example sentences of "[been] [adv] [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As there are many persons of distinction in England who are pleased to honour the art of gardening by making it a considerable part of their amusement and have been greatly assisting in the introducing of large numbers of new plants , shrubs and trees into the English gardens and as some of these noble persons have studied the science of botany and are well acquainted with the characters and true names of the plants … their example will render it necessary for the professors of Gardening at least to know the plants they cultivate by their proper titles … |
| 2 | Half an hour later , Jamie Shepherd , who had been patiently waiting in the hospital foyer , drove his granddaughter home . |
| 3 | Peter Noonan has been patiently waiting in the wings for six years , and finally , whether it was seeing Terry so happy , realising that she was n't getting any younger , or the fact that I told her I was thinking of getting married , sh — ’ |
| 4 | During this period Churchill took over the coal negotiations and displayed a vigour for settlement which had been entirely lacking in the Prime Minister . |
| 5 | Brown has been important to White because he provides the top-level training practice that has been so lacking in the build-up to this world championships . |
| 6 | The acceptance of a bottom line , something that seems to have been singularly missing in the British negotiating stance , will provide its own discipline . |
| 7 | Excitement had been steadily rising in the crowded chamber during the closing stages of the debate on a new clause to be added to the Criminal Justice Bill , but jubilation found vent in a roar of cheering when it was evident how the vote had gone … |
| 8 | Jealousy of her friend had been steadily mounting in the last few months . |
| 9 | There has , however , been no easing in the fierceness of the competition , with no improvements in margins expected in the medium term . |
| 10 | It had been half sitting in the corner , now it seemed to crouch , as if ready to spring forward . |
| 11 | Charles Richardson , who is a priest of the diocese of Plymouth and has been recently working in the Diocese of Cape Town , has been appointed as assistant priest in St Joseph 's , Bradford . |
| 12 | In the end , since there were no volunteers , the Magistrate was obliged to send the Eurasian women , half a dozen of whom had been quietly living in the Residency pantry and had spread their bedding on the pantry shelves . |
| 13 | Yvette Andrews , Wood News Correspondent for Lincoln Turbine Service in Lincoln had been quietly sitting in the administration office when her boyfriend Paul waltzed in and , on bended knee , asked her to marry him . |