Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] [vb past] be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore , a settlement arrangement was made whereby the creditor countries could exchange on a monthly basis their accumulations of the weaker currencies ( which they had been buying in the EC exchange markets ) for some other form of reserve asset . |
| 2 | The bowyer came out of the back of the shop , the bow case which he had been selecting in his hands . |
| 3 | This gave it an influence among the Middle classes which it had never previously enjoyed , while allowing it to maintain the tenuous but important industrial base which it had been creating in the 1920s . |
| 4 | Glasgow University 's recently published study of homelessness among the young in Scotland simply highlights the facts which have been known to anyone who had been working in the social security system in whatever capacity for a number of years . |
| 5 | Instead she pointed out what she thought was happening in the session and the need for all of them to look at the problems in a constructive way . |
| 6 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 7 | Commented Aileen Collins retrospectively , ‘ … our study of literature in no way reflected what we knew was happening in the world … ( we aspired ) to let in new voices , and essentially to jolt Canadians from their lethargy and narrow-mindedness . |
| 8 | All three were still dressed in what they had been wearing in the camp : corduroy trousers , khaki shirts and pullovers and big nailed boots . |
| 9 | Although this was the exact opposite of what they had been saying in the previous year , it was consistent in suggesting that there was a conflict between leaders and members . |
| 10 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 11 | As the minority population became more vociferous in its demands and more openly nationalist and republican , the stature of Paisley in the loyalist camp was proportionately increased because Protestants looked back at what he had been saying in the early days of O'Neill 's reign and saw that ‘ he had been right all along ’ . |
| 12 | By comparison , what he 'd been doing in the cafeteria block was mere journeyman stuff . |
| 13 | But he went on refusing to say anything at all about what he 'd been doing in Paris . |