Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The news comes the day before Johan Egelstedt , 19 , leaves the family he has been staying with in Leicester to return to Sweden and resume his education . |
| 2 | It does not help Fergie 's case that the financial expert who has been advising her about the settlement is the same man she has been cavorting with in the south of France . |
| 3 | Miranda taller , with her bushy hair and colouring that the Italians whose paintings she 'd been looking at in the Louvre rendered by priming the canvas with a copper-based green paint , creating a complexion that draws light in rather than gives it out ; Xanthe beside her with her candy radiance of pink and gold , and rounder too , more neatly assembled , wrist to hand , neck to shoulders , ankle to foot . |
| 4 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 5 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 6 | On the other hand , virtually all the demands which the Anglicans had been pressing for in their attempts to come to terms with James , such as those made by the bishops in their meeting with the King on 3 October , did . |
| 7 | Well it gives a schedule of housing conditions in Greater York erm and I 've been comparing in in turn that schedule with the schedule produced by the City Council on a more updated basis . |
| 8 | ‘ What I 'm saying , Vitali — what I 've been driving at in my own bluff way — is that I would very much appreciate , that 's to say , well … ’ |
| 9 | The writers and compilers of the stories we have been looking at in this chapter knew that . |
| 10 | ‘ I have discovered that the black people I have been working with in the inner cities proposed me for the award . |
| 11 | What we have been talking about in economies and logistics support is reducing the amount of second line base facilities for this aeroplane . |
| 12 | This is what goats have been asking for in the their prayers . |
| 13 | Alright , and I 'll talk about , well , the lesson finishes at twelve , so if you have about a quarter of an hour , twenty minutes on that , then what I want each group to have someone who will report back on what the group 's been talking about in the next twenty minutes or so . |