Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be sitting [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
| 2 | Next I went to the Clerecia , where I had been sitting with Dana watching that wall-clock 's gift pendulum busily wagging away on the wall in front of the great baroque gilt altar . |
| 3 | Now that was about two weeks ago and I 've been sitting on it meaning to , to write to the press and say how disgusting it was . |
| 4 | I know times I get it , like maybe just at one side , if I 've been sitting in a hard seat |
| 5 | ‘ Sorry to be a pest , ’ Travis apologised , ‘ but I saw you come back without Naylor , ’ and while Leith was rapidly trying to find an excuse for her return to the house without the man everyone knew she had gone walking with , she found that Travis was too involved with his own miseries to want to delve into hers , for he went on , ‘ I 've been sitting in the library thinking about Rosemary , and getting more and more uptight about our situation , when you ran in and I started to think about phoning her . |
| 6 | And you hit it and it bends up and it just dies and I 've been sitting like , I mean I , I definitely do n't think that it is anything with the way I hold it in like cos I 've been sitting going and I just , just hit it and it goes ee , it just dies so you ca n't bend , that 's on too . |
| 7 | I have been sitting in this armchair for about an hour . |
| 8 | She 'd been sitting on the edge of the bed when they 'd arrived , two large uniformed men . |
| 9 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 10 | So , when he 'd first laid eyes on Judith — she 'd been sitting behind a desk at his accountant 's offices , her beauty all the more luminous for its drab setting — his first thought was : I want this woman ; his second : she wo n't want me . |
| 11 | Her face and neck felt as if she 'd been sitting in the heat of an oven . |
| 12 | A lady phoned in saying she 'd been sitting in a café when some animal rights campaigners carrying collection tins arrived and ordered a meal . |
| 13 | ‘ While you 've been sitting on your intellectual arses alternately pitying yourselves and the so-called workers , it 's my hard work , my money that 's been keeping this country — ’ Stalking off indoors ; the door shuts . |
| 14 | Every time I 've passed the studio you 've been sitting with your head bent , scribbling away . |
| 15 | Griddles and flaming wheels seem a pretty soft option when you 've been sitting in pitch darkness with your pants full of scorpions . |
| 16 | You 've been sitting in a side road waiting to come out , and you see a vehicle coming along and it 's got its left-hand indicator on and you think Oh lovely ! |
| 17 | ‘ You 've been sitting in that damned cottage for nigh on a year and you 've become a coward . |
| 18 | You 've been sitting behind a desk for too long . |
| 19 | She had been sitting on the shingle staring out to sea , her arms clasped round her knees , Timmy lying asleep on the small rug beside her . |
| 20 | She had been sitting on the edge of the bed , and now she leaned forward to take the other woman 's hand again . |
| 21 | The phone rang at the other end , and was answered immediately , as though she had been sitting beside it , waiting . |
| 22 | It seemed that when he had arrested the thief , and reported to Sergia , she had been sitting in an ornate chair made of a local high-gloss hardwood . |
| 23 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 24 | Why not get used to doing this stretch throughout the day — especially if you have been sitting in the same position for any length of time ? |
| 25 | And she 's been sitting with me down in my studio while I work . |
| 26 | ‘ We 'd been sitting with him in hospital keeping his mind occupied , but when our visiting times changed and he was alone he would lie there and think . |
| 27 | ‘ If we had been sitting at the bottom I could accept my fate , but we are seventh and have lost only one of the last eight games . ’ |
| 28 | They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other . |
| 29 | They 've been sitting during this meditation on her short useless history as a Socialist , they 've been sitting in the dark and now the moon rises , full and amber against a bar of cloud and Harriet 's face is bowed ; a drink at one hand ; and a cigarette droops glowing from the other . |
| 30 | They had been sitting at home ( unheated , before Anna put in the plumbing and the armchairs ) with cousins and priests coming to black coffee now and then while the prince was out on his horse or at the club . |