Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [prep] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , he has been caddying for Harley in Europe , and he did win one tournament and finished equal second in the other . |
| 2 | Disabled people from all over the country have been competing for honours in a carriage driving contest . |
| 3 | I find the French development encouraging , for I have myself for years been experimenting with whisky in the cooking pots . |
| 4 | Police announced that youths posing as charity collectors have been knocking on doors in Liverpool asking for money for the James Bulger Appeal . |
| 5 | The first is that some cricketers have been cheating for years in a most blatant manner . |
| 6 | But Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , who has been pressing for CUTS in interest rates , said the rise was ‘ disastrous . ’ |
| 7 | Section 2.2 explores different definitions of deindustrialization , looking at each of them in the context of data on what has actually been happening to manufacturing in this country over recent decades . |
| 8 | What 's been happening in theology in recent years ? |
| 9 | To some extent this is what has been happening in Britain in the 1980s . |
| 10 | Council officers have also been looking at playgrounds in the Witham area . |
| 11 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 12 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 13 | Other sectors , such as oil refining and petrochemicals , have been pretty depressed so contractors used to serving those industries have all been looking for business in the same markets as ourselves . |
| 14 | Like hundreds of other child victims of the bloody Yugoslav war , Natasha had been sheltering from gunfire in the Sarajevo orphanage , when Mike found her . |
| 15 | The first of such groups was Ketley 's Building Society known to have been operating in Birmingham in 1775 . |
| 16 | The Grosvenor Gallery , Eric Estorick 's famous gallery which , in recent years , has been operating from offices in South Moulton Street , has moved to the spacious premises vacated by the Albemarle Gallery in Albemarle Street . |
| 17 | Many have been living for years in a shadowy , illegal world , doing the jobs that affluent Japanese now shun . |
| 18 | providing , and you 've been living off capital in that way , and and and I 'm not prepared to do that , but I do think there is strong case for borrowing , er , providing it 's kept in in that in in er er under control at this time , and borrowing , I may feel that we will be able to be in a much better position to take our capital receipts and use them advantageously in the future . |
| 19 | The refugees were Sudanese who had been living in camps in Ethiopia 's Ilubabor region since fleeing the war in southern Sudan in the mid-1980s . |
| 20 | Jean is Stella 's daughter , and Lucy has been acting as hostess in her place . ’ |
| 21 | This Shrewsbury company , Orbicom has been acting as middleman in selling Montegos to Russia . |
| 22 | At one time for example she was reported to have been racing around Melbourne in a brand new pink sports car . |
| 23 | I 've been lying for hours in the dark and thinking . |
| 24 | Such conclusions had been growing in force in American higher education for many years , and especially since the investigation carried out by Harvie Branscomb , librarian of Duke University , in the later 19305 at the request of the Association of American Colleges . |
| 25 | Claus Toksvig , then a Danish broadcaster based in London , had been reporting on unemployment in Britain . |
| 26 | The refugees , who had been staying in camps in Croatia , were accompanied by Jean Kahn , president of the European Jewish Congress , which made the appeal for more action from European countries and Israel to provide a refuge for Bosnians . |
| 27 | Police are warning elderly people to be on their guard against a bogus council worker who has been calling at homes in the Forest of Dean . |
| 28 | Women 's Aid and the Domestic Violence Working Group — a body composed of those encountering the results of domestic violence — had been calling for clarification in the law since the decision . |
| 29 | This has further emphasized to ourselves with , I accept our reading of the draft of P P G thirteen , and also more work we 've been doing on land in the city , and on the potential traffic implications in particular of further growth outside the ring road . |
| 30 | In 1984 opinion polls showed that Ronald Reagan would have been decisively defeated had he been running for re-election in Britain . |