Example sentences of "been [v-ing] in [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The , the , the best defence you could make of that , if you wanted to make a defence of it , would be that in the nineteen twenties and thirties as we 've been seeing in the lectures , I 'll be saying a bit more about that some psychoanalyse was , was developing . |
| 2 | Davies arrived home at the time he should have been competing in the Olympics . |
| 3 | The region 's largest gardening show has been drawing in the crowds on the edge of the Malvern Hills . |
| 4 | Ever since Munro visited the area on his mammoth feat of cataloguing , and inexplicably rejected the locals ' claim of its 3000 foot stature for his original table of 283 Munros ( the figure has now been cut to 277 ) , Foinavon has been lurking in the wings . |
| 5 | But other accounts of Summerchild 's death must have been appearing in the newspapers somewhere , because a little further on there is another cutting from The Times . |
| 6 | She was surprised to find that it was still not too late , only lunchtime actually , and she was further surprised when Felipe merely informed the other two that they had been driving in the mountains . |
| 7 | All she knew was that she was turning into McAllister again , Dr Neil 's pert and lively maid , and that this was the haven which she had unconsciously been seeking in the months since Havvie Blaine had assaulted her . |
| 8 | I thought , I thought someone had been smoking in the toilets . |
| 9 | it 'd look like that might of been looking in the markets and that |
| 10 | There seems little wrong with that , for we have been living in a fools paradise for years and also depriving the Americans of value . |
| 11 | To what ex what I 'm saying is , To what extent has been living in the flats , has contributed the life on the flats that they 're in . |
| 12 | How long have you been living in the flats for ? |
| 13 | When the political and moral credibility of the Soviet system collapsed in 1956 , something that had been slumbering in the depths of Sartre 's consciousness was suddenly reawakened . |
| 14 | Boucheron , who had been suspended from the PS at his own request in October 1990 , claimed to have been acting in the interests of the party . |
| 15 | Welcome back : One of Britain 's best loved racehorses , Desert Orchid has been pulling in the crowds at the Three Counties Show . |
| 16 | On his return Geoffrey should have been waiting in the wings to assist him into his pirate coat — the hook attached to the sleeve rendered it cumbersome . |
| 17 | Time and its buried hoard , however , had only been waiting in the wings , and it was now that the priest was discovering just how perfidious Time could be . |
| 18 | ‘ It must have been lying in the ferns and took fright when I came along . ’ |
| 19 | And he should n't have been going in the woods , should he ? |
| 20 | All these species are common migrants which appear in Shetland every year , and I could n't help wondering if any of those we were hearing and seeing may have been feeding in the bushes in my garden a short time before … |
| 21 | Most of these new arrivals had reached the area with the deliveries of Hurricanes by H.M.S. ‘ Furious ’ as already recounted , and had thus been languishing in the Pilots ' Pool at Ismailia , awaiting posting to a unit . |
| 22 | I 've been bowling in the nets for the last two weeks . |
| 23 | For three years with the help of a team of fundraisers he 's been hauling in the costs of sixty thousand pounds |
| 24 | A MORE considered , romantic and melancholy version of the above , with Henry Fonda 's Wyatt Earp cleaning up the nightmarish town of Tombstone , making the community safe for the church-going , square-dancing just plain folks who have been hiding in the shadows while the Clanton gang runs riot . |
| 25 | Since we 've been thinking these past few weeks about what Christians believe , the first text would be in the er skeleton outline that we 've been taking in the Apostles ' creed , which says I believe in the Holy Ghost . |
| 26 | After all , he 'd been ferreting in the records for a good while . ’ |
| 27 | In recent days , he wrote , perhaps because Spring is upon us , I have been putting in the hours but the intensity has gone . |
| 28 | Some members of the crew had been sitting in the bows and it was only when they denied having seen her that he began to search seriously . |
| 29 | In October , in a similarly light-hearted vein , he recounted to Virginia Woolf how he had been sitting in the wings of the Westminster Theatre ( where Sweeney Agonistes was playing ) and , on another occasion , lighting fireworks in the company of John Hayward and W. H. Auden . |
| 30 | The fires have been burning in the orchards this weekend.It was all part of ancient rites to ensure a good crop of cider apples.And there 's some evidence that it really works.Richard Barnett reports : |