Example sentences of "been [v-ing] [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Planning Committee had been meeting weekly in 1969 , but the College had not wanted to be too rigid in imposing teaching methods . |
| 2 | Gregory and Gary O'Kane have been looking sharp in the Saffron jersey recently while Jim Close and Sean Paul McKillop are match-winners in their own right . |
| 3 | Understandable had I been writing this in August , but as it is still March it looks as if we are in for another drought this summer . |
| 4 | The rapist , who has been living rough in wooded , hilly countryside , grabbed his latest victim in a village near Chippenham , Wilts . |
| 5 | Mark who was born in the capital , has been living rough in Nottingham . |
| 6 | Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff . |
| 7 | No one could say how long the elderly woman had been lying lifeless in her home , but the authorities told reporters she had apparently not responded to calls since before Hallowe'en . |
| 8 | Finn must have been lying awake in the darkness , as she was , the wall separating them like Tristan 's sword , for she could hear the soft murmur of him and Francie talking together for a little while , but she could not make out one word . |
| 9 | ‘ At the time of the murder he appears to have been lying low in a barn near Gainsborough . |
| 10 | It is only when you stop scanning the horizon for monumental shapes that you realise they have been looming unnoticed in the foreground all along . |
| 11 | Jim is a founder member of the Elderslie Boys Club — which has been going strong in the area for seven years — and the Stoddards employee has himself contributed 17 years to Boys football . |
| 12 | Now , with accountants trying to find whether pension money was used to help Oxford out of their financial difficulties , he 's coming to terms with the possibility he 's been supporting United in more ways than one … |
| 13 | Those sub-pop noise boys — Slug — have been riding high in the local artists chart with their brand new demo . |
| 14 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 15 | They have been doing this in Suffolk for almost 110 years , comforting the sick and lonely , and relieving the worries of the anxious and elderly . |
| 16 | Emotions have been running high in the community since James 's body was found on a railway embankment . |
| 17 | Been learning that in school . |
| 18 | ‘ We 've not been putting any in . ’ |
| 19 | She had been sitting still in her seat . |
| 20 | But er according to Sharon she 's been sitting alone in er bed and breakfast and erm |
| 21 | The Civil Aviation Authority has ordered cuts in pilots ' hours after the discovery that flight crews have been falling asleep in the cockpit . |
| 22 | Gosse had been watching all in silence , his jaw clenched , his neck muscles taut . |