Example sentences of "man have be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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1 | The young man has been living in the USA . |
2 | Another man has been existing in a tiny cell in Georgia for 20 years — waiting to die . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
5 | It was hard luck on Steinmark , that went without saying , but if the man had been lurking in disreputable quarters and lurching home drunk , it was his own fault . |