Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Standing there in shade , I observed the man and woman who had also been eating in the hotel emerge with their child . |
| 2 | She 'd been waitressing in the dining-room for breakfast and lunch . |
| 3 | He and his men had been resting in the farm when they saw Sharpe 's ignominious flight . |
| 4 | Raynor had fetched wine from a corner cupboard , and was heating it with a thin iron rod which had been resting in the fire 's embers . |
| 5 | But if England and Wales were to provide them with the right context come this Saturday , Mike Teague — who has been shortening in the betting and who was integral to the Lions ' strategy under the same coach , McGeechan , in Australia in 1989 — and either Emyr Lewis or Richard Webster could win the two blindside berths . |
| 6 | Another one has taken a quick look and walked away : Motorola Inc chairman George Fisher said the chief executive position at IBM Corp did not interest him : he wrote to employees saying that speculation about the post had been building in the news media and that his name had been mentioned — ‘ though IBM is a fine company , I am not interested in the position ; I plan to stay at Motorola where my work is challenging , exciting and rewarding . ’ |
| 7 | For house physician John Bery , the day begins at Cheltenham General Hospital when he puts on a pedometer.He 's one of a group of doctors who 've been helping in a survey of the distances covered while on duty.Soon Dr Bery is heading for a ward at the opposite end of the hospital.It 's the first of many long walks along the corridors during the day.The problem at Cheltenham general is identical to many other hospitals … where an old Victorian block has been extended with newer buildings forcing doctors to travel great distances from department to department . |
| 8 | Even when she 'd been helping in the kitchen she 'd found her eyes straying , as if magnetised , in his direction . |
| 9 | Barry Stewart , defending , said Gregory 's plea was based on the fact that he had been helping in the retention of the items . |
| 10 | The storm that had been circling in the distance wandered far off , only an occasional casual flicker of light low in the sky showed that somewhere the enormous battle was going on . |
| 11 | Recently , in fact , with only bathroom tissue , hand soap and water , I cleaned up an acrylic painting that had been hanging in a office for 24 years . |
| 12 | They were on the dusty painted dresser , on the shelves , and on a tin tray before a freckled old mirror that had been hanging in the bathroom . |
| 13 | Landowners are demanding that the police get tough with so-called new age travellers who 've been gathering in the region . |
| 14 | It 's believed the deer had been struggling in the snare for more than two days before it was found . |
| 15 | In many cases success for one of our runners has meant a breakthrough in a problem with which he has been struggling in the classroom . |
| 16 | ‘ I might not be the youngest but I have a great deal of knowledge which I have been using in the field of local and regional government for years . ’ |
| 17 | The language used to describe this is reminiscent of Harrison , as well as clearly relating to the technique of Charlie Mears , Tiresias , and the dromenon- like patterning with which Eliot had been experimenting in the quatrain poems . |
| 18 | She had been kneeling in an easy-chair to look at the painting at that side of the room and as she moved he suddenly looked across at her intently , his face moody . |
| 19 | It was so wet and cold that they might have been walking in the sea , but she did not seem to notice . |
| 20 | He had told her about the cannabis bed a few days ago when they had been walking in the garden and her eyes had widened in shock . |
| 21 | Francie 's shoes were brilliant with polish but Finn 's were caked with mud — though where could he have been , had he been walking in the pleasure garden by himself , talking to the broken queen and patting the stone lioness on the head ? |
| 22 | He must have been lurking in the church hall , though I could n't see him properly in that dark corner . |
| 23 | A possible intervention of the King 's Proctor to upset the divorce had for some time been lurking in the Government 's mind . |
| 24 | AMERICA 'S Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ) has set a sturdy hare running , one that has been lurking in the undergrowth for 15 years . |
| 25 | Ever since then , under various ideas of devolution and home rule , especially ‘ home rule all round ’ , the federal idea has been lurking in the background . |
| 26 | The largest gathering of American cars outside the United States has been assembling in the region . |
| 27 | Sorry , I 've been laughing in the kitchen you see , that 's what it is ! |
| 28 | Thousands of dead fish have been appearing in the river Allier in the French department of Puy-de-Dôme . |
| 29 | ‘ In comparison , Dragon 's share price has been trading in the range of a discount to net asset value of 21.9 per cent to a premium of 1.7 per cent during the year to 10 February . ’ |
| 30 | Sixty seven of the pleadings bundle which are the further and better particulars this year and you can see that er looking back to page sixty six , what the plaintiffs have been asked to state was to give particulars of the change in financial position which had been outlined to Mr on the telephone and er your Lordship will see first of all that in answer eighty little A , there is a reference to er a letter of the twenty seventh of February nineteen ninety two which was a letter from the plaintiff 's solicitors to the defendant 's solicitors which , this is been incorporating in the front or ought to be in the bible , erm I do n't think it has been but there are copies if I can hand your Lordship it was missed out in error I am sorry . |