Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A curd which has been soaking in its own whey makes an acid cheese ( which explains the often sharp taste of Eastern Mediterranean white cheeses which are sometimes stored in whey ) . |
| 2 | The Blackrag Madonna nods as he speaks , then whispers to a scrap of a follower who has been hiding in her robes throughout the interview . |
| 3 | It provides for both Britain and France a unique representative picture of the quality of family life and how it has been changing in our time . |
| 4 | Sarat has been working in his father 's fields but in August was due to move to a clerical post in Cuttack . |
| 5 | What has been missing in our equipment , our foresight , our leadership ? |
| 6 | From a technical point of view this is mainly nip and tuck stuff , but Microsoft is betting that the innovative use of existing technology will be a winner and is finally cashing in on all the application programming interfaces , dynamic data exchange , object linking and embedding facilities that it has been burying in its applications and operating systems for the last couple of years . |
| 7 | I try to keep my diary clear and concentrate on collating and editing all the material that has been arriving in my in-tray over the previous weeks . |
| 8 | We 'd been living in his London flat , and so far our frantic house-hunt had been futile — too big , too small , too near the road , too far from London , but mostly too expensive . |
| 9 | He 'd been dozing in his sitting room when the noise from upstairs woke him . |
| 10 | Another unemployed divorcee said he 'd been sitting in his room late one night talking with a fellow inmate : |
| 11 | ‘ So , by preventing Heather from leaving , you would have been acting in her best interests as well as yours ? ’ |
| 12 | I must say that I feel Charles Greenwich must have been joking in his reply . |
| 13 | Some younger ones too may want children to fill some need for love and affection that may have been lacking in their lives . |
| 14 | ‘ If I had any political objectives I would have been sitting in my cantonment ( barracks ) scheming and planning , ’ Gen Beg said . |
| 15 | Denys and Tania would have been turning in their graves . ’ |
| 16 | As has been shown in detail elsewhere ( Hanko 1986 , 1987 , 1989 ) , knowledge that can highlight the underlying issues has to be supplemented , and skills have to be developed in the group , which the designated supporter will have been applying in his work with children , but now has to redeploy for work with fellow professionals . |
| 17 | When normal people would have been lying in their beds with the covers over their heads , these MPs bounced on to our television screens debating the minutiae of the leadership election system . |
| 18 | The water was close , I could almost have been lying in it . |
| 19 | LOYAL Bluemen like you and Malcolm Brodie must have been crying in your beer when Bangor turned Linfield over yet again this week . |
| 20 | The Emperor is supposed to have considered giving up the Province , and Seneca , who , as one of his advisers was well informed , is said to have been calling in his , or the Imperial , loans . |
| 21 | John Dalton eventually elicited the truth of his identity from him and offered him sanctuary as a hermit in his own home ( perhaps Richard had been reconnoitring in his disappearance before dinner ) and at his own expense . |
| 22 | Lefevre , who for some time had been shifting in his seat with every sign of impatience , relaxed and smiled . |
| 23 | Palmer had noticed that something was wrong with the water , even before taking the sample , and volunteered the opinion ( subsequently confirmed ) that cattle had been drinking in it upstream . |
| 24 | Irina , who had been holding in her hand the red saucepan earlier referred to by Ludens , put it down and said , ‘ Oh . ’ |
| 25 | Ruth drew a deep breath , summoned all her courage , and blurted out the question which had been churning in her mind day and night for some time . |
| 26 | It was as though an extraordinary story — a great mythology , with half-forgotten legends , languages and lore — had been unfolding in his head from the time he began to think ; and his appreciation of the Old Literature was at the deepest level imaginative and creative . |
| 27 | In both these settings , women who had been toiling in their communities came to conference to exchange ideas and information , and to gain strength by being together . |
| 28 | They had been living in it for years . |
| 29 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
| 30 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |