Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adv] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The greatest human impact has been in Uruguay , where 600–2000 franciscanas have been drowning annually in a gill-net fishery for sharks in recent years . |
| 2 | He mumbled that he was still in a state of shock and had been walking around in a dream all day . |
| 3 | I 'm the one who deserves a new one I 've been driving around in a van for three years ! |
| 4 | Many of the players , as we have seen , had been wandering already in a nether world of two-dimensional heroes , villains , adventurers and fall-guys . |
| 5 | They have been frequently invited to international festivals , but this will be the first time they have visited our own festival — we have been waiting patiently in a very long queue ! |
| 6 | ‘ She 's been lying there in a state of collapse , and not a soul has been next or nigh her ! ’ |
| 7 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 8 | So the words composed to fit the tune , that 's already been going around in a , in a gentleman 's music club . |
| 9 | Faced with a rush of competition from foreign banks when Portugal is forced to remove remaining barriers to entry after next year , banks such as BCP have been expanding fast in an attempt to ensure their market share of domestic business in banking and other financial services . |
| 10 | The horse , who had steadily been moving along in a quiet way , gave a strange little leap and she realised she had inadvertently dug her heels into his side . |
| 11 | They were three US citizens and one Australian who had been travelling together in a car , and one UK citizen who had been taken off a bus . |
| 12 | Scientists working on the jet fusion project at Culham in south Oxfordshire have been protesting today in a bid to influence leading figures in the project as they met for the second day of their full Council Meeting . |
| 13 | London is miserable , rain and boredom and I have been drinking steadily in an attempt to instil some gaiety into my apathetic mind … |
| 14 | Two evenings back Pete had found his front door open to the darkness , and the porch light on ; rain had been falling outside in a continuous silver curtain and in the sheltered area at the top of the steps , Alina 's shoes had lain discarded . |