Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Great-grandmother Shay , 75 , from Walton , has been collecting in memory of fallen heroes since 1942 . |
| 2 | ‘ I want to feel the embrace of my fans , 100,000 of them , and I 'm waiting to face my rivals with confidence , ’ said the 25-year-old , who has been training in Sestriere for the past few weeks . |
| 3 | Hong Kong has been hanging in suspense for almost a fortnight over if Mr Patten would drop a self-imposed deadline for publication at the end of February so that talks with China could resume . |
| 4 | An old man who has been living in exile returns to Prague in 1998 . |
| 5 | The Dalai Lama , the spiritual and political leader of the Tibetan people , has been living in exile at Dharamsala , India , since 1959 . |
| 6 | The whole community has been living in fear for far too long , menaced equally by both sets of paramilitaries . |
| 7 | Vic knows what it is : a book entitled Enjoy Your Menopause , which one of Marjorie 's friends at the Weight Watchers ' club has lent her , and which she has been reading in bed , without much show of conviction , and falling asleep over , for the past week or two . |
| 8 | She has been teaching in North Kensington . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Bob Woolmer has been easing in bowler Dougie Brown at Sunday League level . |
| 10 | A victory for her would be regarded as a particularly bitter blow for Mr Chirac , who has been campaigning in support of her rival . |
| 11 | SCOTVEC has been working in partnership with Understanding Industry to develop a module entitled ‘ Understanding industry ’ . |
| 12 | If there is no formal agreement between the band members , and if the band has been working in practice as a partnership , I have always viewed the band as operating as if there were a formal partnership agreement . |
| 13 | But that pressure has been missing in Parliament for too long . |
| 14 | C. As a port , Bristol has been growing in size and trade . |
| 15 | Saga has been specialising in quality holidays for the older generation for 40 years now . |
| 16 | It has been standing in water all day , and it has been well scraped before it came out this evening . |
| 17 | It 's a word that has been percolating in dance music for the past couple of years , a reminder that there was life before raves , gripping club culture by the scruff of its Joe Bloggs shirt , and shaking it until the penny drops . |
| 18 | Before we leave Glamorgan , a word of congratulation to Stephen James , who has been opening in place of Butcher and compiling runs with the kind of technique that reveals how earnestly he is trying to establish himself this summer . |
| 19 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 20 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence . |
| 21 | Maybe they 'd been meeting in secret for a while . |
| 22 | One Saturday night he 'd been drinking in front of the telly when he decided to phone Sheila 's place . |
| 23 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 24 | And these were the very works , The Golden Bough , Welker Psychologie which Freud 's contemporaries would have been reading in English and German . |
| 25 | It was held that Williams was not guilty , since had the facts been as he believed them to be , he would have been acting in defence of the other . |
| 26 | Ferguson 's promise was more praiseworthy than pondering how much Germany might have been holding in reserve . |
| 27 | By 1815 the canals may have been carrying in excess of 10 million tons of coal , not only more cheaply — on average coal prices ( and those of other bulky materials ) fell by between 50 and 70 per cent in larger urban centres with the opening of a canal — but also over an extended reach . |
| 28 | All those changes must have been happening in parallel with these other ones . |
| 29 | If the City chairman had sacked Mel Machin to bring in a John Bond or Malcolm Allison then heads really would have been shaking in wonderment at another Peter Swales masterstroke . |
| 30 | And he must have been testin' in part fur flight refuellin' because Rodriguez says in his book he was refuelled somewhere over the Bellingshausen Sea , which is a long way west of the area where Sunderby lost his life . ’ |