Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baltic opinion , in particular , objected that the changes proposed were centralising in character and that the republics ' ( admittedly nominal ) right of secession had been prejudiced . |
| 2 | He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence . |
| 3 | He 'd been hiding in a woodland graveyard , only half-heartedly concealed behind one of the leaning roofed crosses . |
| 4 | Even when she 'd been helping in the kitchen she 'd found her eyes straying , as if magnetised , in his direction . |
| 5 | On trial at Worcester Crown Court were thirty year old Jamie Ray , a Californian who 'd been staying in England , James Lovelidge from London who 's twenty seven and unemployed , and Michael Rock , a forty one year old French Canadian who was living in London . |
| 6 | After all , he 'd been ferreting in the records for a good while . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd been teaching in Preston it must have been three years then , and when I read that book I suddenly realized I knew nothing about Lancashire at all — not the real Lancashire . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 10 | Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office . |
| 11 | We 'd been living in his London flat , and so far our frantic house-hunt had been futile — too big , too small , too near the road , too far from London , but mostly too expensive . |
| 12 | He 'd been living in a £500-a-week hotel suite in Nottingham , spending £2,000 a month on clothes . |
| 13 | She 'd been living in England such a long time , of course , it was a bit too free and easy over there . |
| 14 | I 'd been living in the country with my wife when she died unexpectedly . |
| 15 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 16 | She heard him release the breath he 'd been holding in a sigh . |
| 17 | He 'd been dozing in his sitting room when the noise from upstairs woke him . |
| 18 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 19 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence . |
| 20 | Maybe they 'd been meeting in secret for a while . |
| 21 | One Saturday night he 'd been drinking in front of the telly when he decided to phone Sheila 's place . |
| 22 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 23 | She 'd been waitressing in the dining-room for breakfast and lunch . |
| 24 | He was n't wearing the suit he 'd been wearing in Furnival Gardens . |
| 25 | Nobody 'd been fighting in there , take it from me . ’ |
| 26 | Perhaps she 'd heard his panting , and the promises he 'd been making in the dark . |
| 27 | The rational part of his mind knew this could not be the case , and that it was most likely he 'd been travelling in circles . |
| 28 | She 'd been browsing in a bookshop after buying a bedtime book for Kirsty when she 'd suddenly caught sight of the clock on the wall and seen , to her horror , that it was nearly five o'clock . |
| 29 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 30 | Dot knew from their voices that those two young men who 'd been working in the fields must be prisoners . |