Example sentences of "been in [art] [noun] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big man has been in a clinic since breaking a leg against Crystal Palace last week and the only way he can join in the Reds rise is by cheering them on in front of his telly . |
| 2 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 3 | I must confess , my dear Fanny ( his sister ) , that I found your judgement of him was inadequate ; perhaps , too , he may not have been in the mood for playing when you heard him , which is probably often the case ; but I was again enchanted by his playing , and I am convinced that if you , and Father too , had heard some of his best things in the way he played them to me , you would say the same . |
| 4 | The ideal of an unrelated self is shown to be an ideal developed by people who have never been in the position of having primary responsibility for the care of children or the old . |
| 5 | Somehow the sight of this touched Ianthe , who had never herself been in the position of having to wait till pay-day . |
| 6 | Harbour had been in the middle of telling Freddie that in his opinion it was almost a blessing that the theatre would have to close . |
| 7 | That , of course , is why the United Kingdom Government have been in the lead in pressing for the completion of the single market and that is why , in the current negotiations , we are arguing for steps to strengthen the observance of Community law to ensure that a level playing field is included in the single market . |
| 8 | I 've been in the habit of buying from various ‘ alternative ’ bookshops in a desperate attempt to support all of them . |
| 9 | If they had not been in the habit of seeing each other so often , at least once a week and sometimes more , talking on the phone every day , that appalling suggestion might have driven a bolt through their friendship , eventually destroying it . |
| 10 | She also says : ‘ … where people have been in the habit of reaching out towards the Unseen they wear a kind of track , and it 's much easier to go out that way . ’ |
| 11 | Since her earliest golfing days , they had been in the habit of congratulating her on her latest success . |
| 12 | Another head recently told me of a teacher who had been in the habit of twanging the sixth-form girls ' bra straps . |
| 13 | She had been in the habit of drinking five or six mugs of coffee a day ( a massive onslaught to the nervous system ) . |
| 14 | It also believes that planning can ensure that new buildings are designed in a way which it likes , and has an ability to prevent anything , however small , happening near its own house which reduces its value or interferes with the way in which it has been in the habit of using it . |
| 15 | One of these , the Colt Patent Repeating Pistol , he had been in the habit of using throughout the siege and it was now stuck uncomfortably in the cummerbund he wore round his waist ; he was anxious that the others should not fall into the hands of the sepoys if the Residency were lost . |
| 16 | She meant his earnings , not the yield of the toy-shop business , but she had never been in the habit of referring to them so distinctly , let alone to the fact that they were thin on the ground at the moment . |
| 17 | Suspicious of session musicians , he has never been in the habit of sharing his thoughts about chord sequences or the like ; his co-artists have been expected to listen hard and play along if they can . |
| 18 | His family , it seemed , had not been in the habit of exchanging presents , almost inconceivably to Nenna , whose childhood had been gift-ridden , with much atonement , love and reconciliation conveyed in the bright wrappings . |
| 19 | At Allen Street both men had been in the habit of going on the cruise and the regular traffic of sailors and ‘ rough trade ’ had caused comment among their neighbours . |
| 20 | As I have never been in the habit of working at my easel every morning from 8 am , I only feel inclined to work when something stirs me in some way . |
| 21 | prior to the Daily Telegraph article in January nineteen eighty eight , had or or had they been in the habit of spending large amounts of money on national publicity ? |
| 22 | The law used to look with disfavor on the statute of limitations , but I have been in the habit of saying that it is one of the most sacred and indubitable principles that we have … |
| 23 | In most cases they did not go far or , if they did , the paths from their region to the city had been well-trodden by kinsmen and neighbours , like the hawkers and seasonal building workers who had long been in the habit of coming up to Paris from central France , whose numbers grew with the constructional work of Paris until , after 1870 , they turned from seasonal into permanent migrants . |
| 24 | They were thrilled when they suddenly realized that not only had Tom Mix and Gloria Swanson been in the audience on opening night but were in the same room with them at the party afterwards . |
| 25 | A Atkins Ltd has been in the business of supplying logos and promotional material for 20 years . |
| 26 | I have never been in the business of producing art-crap , he wrote . |
| 27 | This immediately commends it to traditional publishers who have been in the business of selling paper-based ROMs since Gutenberg first invented printing . |
| 28 | I had never been in the lift since moving — either it was out of order or I could smell the putrid stench seeping out into the lobby and avoided it . |
| 29 | Professor Dudek , as we saw , had been in the van of promoting the post-war interests of poetry in a variety of forms and outlets . |
| 30 | On a more optimistic note , just as the 1990 crisis was developing , NIOC had been in the process of letting contracts for the reconstruction of the Kharg Island terminal . |