Example sentences of "been [v-ing] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony was supposed to have been singing in a Black Sabbath ‘ reunion ’ in the States , which did n't happen for him in the end , but that gave us some breathing space . |
| 2 | Hamlet the out-of-work thespian pig has been appearing in a weekly strip in ‘ The Stage ’ since 1988 . |
| 3 | The TARDIS has brought the time-travellers back to Roman times — to 64 AD to be exact — and they have been holidaying in a deserted villa near a small town . |
| 4 | So far , he 'd been driving in a one-car team and in that situation , there is no way of knowing who is quick . |
| 5 | The restructuring approach tended to focus more on detailed investigation of what had been happening in a small number of cases , in a particular industry perhaps . |
| 6 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
| 7 | Vesa had been living in a small apartment in the Mids since their aunt had died a year back . |
| 8 | Since these results are obtained in animals that have been living in a normal environment , they mean that the clock originates , at least in these animals , from an abnormal ‘ internal ’ structure , the chromosome . |
| 9 | ‘ I have been living in a Social Services Home for about seven years . |
| 10 | He had been milling in a modest way at Grove Mill near Painswick , but presumably saw where the future lay . |
| 11 | Hundreds of people campaigning against VAT on dometic fuel have been protesting in a torchlit demonstration in Glasgow 's George Square . |
| 12 | FOR 40 years , I have been dealing in a wide variety of paintings ranging from Old Masters to French Impressionists , Dutch Romantics to modern British pictures . |
| 13 | This time there was no mistaking the command , but , short of trying out one of the manoeuvres she had been learning in a regular martial arts class , there was n't much she could do about it . |
| 14 | He 'd been funny , telling stories against himself of fiascos he had survived in the theatre , and he 'd been flattering in a subtle way . |
| 15 | Another man has been existing in a tiny cell in Georgia for 20 years — waiting to die . |
| 16 | ‘ Ellison has been playing in a central midfield role for the youth team . |
| 17 | Comdisco had been playing in a high stakes financial game known as risk arbitrage , hoping to get ahead of the rapid run-up in a company 's share price when it became the object of a takeover ( or the reversal of fortune that occurred when a takeover fell apart ) . |
| 18 | In the bright mid-morning light he looked , standing there , rather commonplace and even ugly — so thought Alice , who a few moments before had been melting in a familiar ecstasy of admiration for him . |
| 19 | I know times I get it , like maybe just at one side , if I 've been sitting in a hard seat |
| 20 | Two rather hysterical women had been talking in a suburban living-room , the one brunette and hawk-nosed , desperate for approval of a new pair of shoes , the other auburn and bright-eyed , and equally desperate about an undeclared affair her absent husband was having . |
| 21 | Lasagna explains : ‘ The West has been behaving in a miserly way towards the Russians . |
| 22 | Long before Sartre developed his own form of Marxist-Hegelian history , Bachelard had been working in a critical relation to Hegelian historicism . |
| 23 | I 've been working in a male environment now for several years , and I 've got quite used to hearing my colleagues speculate about me and my private life ! |
| 24 | I 'll have been feeling in a different way when I 've painted something three months ago , so it would be wrong to go back and work on it again . |