Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 4 | The man had been writing in a book , he 'd taken the number of the car with an official air and Cormack had wondered why for a moment , then forgotten . |
| 5 | For some years the naval dockyards have been operating in a limbo land . |
| 6 | ‘ I have been living in a bed and breakfast for the past 15 months with my kids and me in the one room . |
| 7 | I moved back to Holyhead and been living in a bedsit since June . |
| 8 | We have been living in a jungle all our lives and we have struggled to bring our minds into cultivation but without hope and suddenly we have found this meadow of cleared land on which we can plant our gardens . |
| 9 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 10 | Since Tuesday , when I went to tea with Ivy , I have been living in a dream of confusion and discomfort . |
| 11 | And they give a , though she 's not being like , really cheeky , it 's because she 's been living in a culture for four years , where that 's the way they , they sell and buy . |
| 12 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
| 13 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |
| 14 | ‘ He had been living in a caravan at the back of the house . ’ |
| 15 | She had been living in a hostel for women in North London for the past year and was waiting to be re-housed . |
| 16 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
| 17 | ‘ The person who put this together must have been living in a box for the last 10 years . ’ |
| 18 | He has been swimming in a pool somewhere , I said to myself . |
| 19 | Then when you stop dieting , the body , which has been acting in a kind of starvation mode , finds that it has become used to its new BMR and requires less calories to function . |
| 20 | The Congress ( I ) Chief Minister , Pratap Singh Rane , who had been acting in a caretaker capacity after the legislative elections , was sworn in for a third term as Chief Minister . |
| 21 | Cos he 's a he 's a conservati , he 's been acting in a lot of conservative party for the past thirteen years ! |
| 22 | Upon investigation it appeared that the bailie had been acting in a manner which aroused doubts about his honesty , for after a conversation with Dowan , Mungo Graeme of Gorthie informed the duke that |
| 23 | They must have been waiting in a car , as neither wore an overcoat and both were suddenly there smack in front of me , blocking the pavement , tantalizingly close to home . |
| 24 | During the trial Mr O'Donnell told how he had agreed to go with McPherson , who had driven him to a lay-by at the Rest and Be Thankful on the A83 road , where men he recognised had been waiting in a van . |
| 25 | You do n't know , I mean he could of gone if he 'd been lying in a chair wa watching the |
| 26 | The high velvet shoulder of his doublet smelt musty as though it had been lying in a trunk for centuries . |
| 27 | She 'd been browsing in a bookshop after buying a bedtime book for Kirsty when she 'd suddenly caught sight of the clock on the wall and seen , to her horror , that it was nearly five o'clock . |
| 28 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |
| 29 | They had been moving in a group , or trying to : actually , they had straggled widely at times . |
| 30 | She heard him release the breath he 'd been holding in a sigh . |