Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] in the " in BNC.

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31 He has been playing in the local Welsh leagues , has represented West Indies ‘ B ’ and is being keenly monitored by the county .
32 Oxfordshiree champion Tim henman has been playing in the quarter finals of the Challenger Trophy against his doubles partner Chris Bailey …
33 Oxfordshiree champion Tim henman has been playing in the quarter finals of the Challenger Trophy against his doubles partner Chris Bailey …
34 ‘ 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 . ’
35 The largest gathering of American cars outside the United States has been assembling in the region .
36 I would be surprised if it was n't still possible to go through ten years of education with only the faintest idea of what has been happening in the world , even your own country .
37 Under Cause and Onset look at what has been happening in the preceding hours or days to the onset of the illness and consider the speed with which the illness came on and the order of events .
38 The same has been happening in the steel industry with the advent of the mini-mills .
39 There is no doubt that that has been happening in the country at large and that they have now been rumbled .
40 We 're not talking of a conversion of ten to fifteen thousand dwellings with erm new building being reduced considerably , we are talking something in the order of magnitude of what has been happening in the past .
41 Well certainly the starting point for that must be to look at what has been happening in the past as evidence .
42 Research begins on the materials needed for railway construction , with some children producing a broadsheet ( on computer ) reporting what has been happening in the town — which they " sell " in the next drama session .
43 He said to protesters : ‘ I think the Timex situation is an indication of what has been happening in the country over the last 10 to 15 years . ’
44 He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence .
45 Even when she 'd been helping in the kitchen she 'd found her eyes straying , as if magnetised , in his direction .
46 After all , he 'd been ferreting in the records for a good while . ’
47 Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office .
48 I 'd been living in the country with my wife when she died unexpectedly .
49 so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah
50 I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub .
51 She 'd been waitressing in the dining-room for breakfast and lunch .
52 Perhaps she 'd heard his panting , and the promises he 'd been making in the dark .
53 Dot knew from their voices that those two young men who 'd been working in the fields must be prisoners .
54 He 'd been working in the welded body section at the time .
55 He 'd been sitting in the car so long , it was hard for him to run .
56 Her face and neck felt as if she 'd been sitting in the heat of an oven .
57 Well okay , that was a time she 'd been camping in the Lake District , Mrs did .
58 By comparison , what he 'd been doing in the cafeteria block was mere journeyman stuff .
59 But , fully clothed , he must have been reading in the sitting-room — or maybe he had just come in — when he too had heard the sound of a car crash .
60 The mercantile agent in disposing of the goods must have been acting in the ordinary course of business of a mercantile agent .
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