Example sentences of "been standing " in BNC.
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| 1 | But then Mr Clancy and Mr Venables , who had been standing by to offer encouragement , had fallen into an argument concerning position . |
| 2 | Potted primulas and other plants that have been standing in frames can be brought into the greenhouse now . |
| 3 | Now the grey dew had gone from the grass , pats of dung steamed where the cattle had been standing , and Cameron , in his shirt-sleeves with a cloth tying back his long black hair , was supervising the winching up of timbers for the roof . |
| 4 | A privately owned half-timbered cottage ( mostly 16th-century ) with pantiled roof and porches , it has been standing empty for years |
| 5 | The world outside Whitehall had not been standing still since Thorneycroft took over . |
| 6 | He had been standing in the kitchen for a long time . |
| 7 | If I had been standing I could have put it in my personal manifesto that I was a sabbatarian but when the Party committed itself to that , it was placing itself in the position of a church . ’ |
| 8 | There can be no doubt that in the 112 years it has been standing on the embankment it has become a part of the London scene . |
| 9 | Guy 's Hospital confirmed last night that the dead girl was Daniella Carter , who had been standing near the blast . |
| 10 | At least I could have moved if I had been standing . |
| 11 | ‘ Since the late Sixties , ’ says Richard , ‘ the women have become more active and have been standing up for themselves , as is only right , but men have become more passive . |
| 12 | ‘ Toe-rag ! ’ he muttered , picking up the drink that had been standing on the glass above the labyrinth of numbers and wires . |
| 13 | Immediately , the cameramen who had been standing at the sides of the rows of chairs moved , and the flash of lights and the clicks of their equipment bewildered him slightly . |
| 14 | She had been standing on the pavement , holding some silly banner — ‘ EDUCATION CUTS ARE NOT COMIC ’ , or something like that — talking and laughing excitedly with a big-bosomed woman stuffed into a scarlet ski-suit and pink moon boots , and he remembered thinking to himself : so it 's finally happened — designer industrial action . |
| 15 | Jack , who had been standing near his friend holding the torn halves of the sketch in either hand , went to the far end of the room and sat on the desk . |
| 16 | She had been standing on her own , holding a teacup in front of her , not looking about her , but rather fixedly out of the window , as though she expected no one to approach and invited no one . |
| 17 | NOTE Urine that has been standing some of the night is not a true specimen for testing . |
| 18 | Exactly at the same time the Girls , who had each been standing behind a door , burst through and on to the stage . |
| 19 | But the red bitch , who 'd been standing nearby , had sensed the aggression and , all of a sudden , crouching low to the ground and snarling , she lunged towards him . |
| 20 | I had no idea how long he 'd been standing there . |
| 21 | It was decided in 1985 that the maypole , which had been standing since 1953 , was no longer safe and should be replaced . |
| 22 | And suddenly he remembered standing here , it was dark-green all around him , but the sky above was blue , the sun must 've been setting , it was quiet , just the creak of a tree , the whir of an insect 's wing , he 'd been standing motionless , as if in a trance , and then he heard a voice , his mother 's voice . |
| 23 | Despite the decline in its popularity , homoeopathy has not been standing still for the entire twentieth century . |
| 24 | She was discussing problems in Lee 's living-room but she could have been standing in front of a giant black door in the middle of a forest . |
| 25 | The oval area from where Simon Cormack had been standing when he died to the point where he stopped rolling , at the heart of the larger circle , was treated with especial care . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , the school 's RFFS ( rescue and fire-fighting service ) person who had been standing outside the school ran 150 metres to the RFFS vehicle parked by the control room . |
| 27 | The young man had been standing on the platform at Portslade station in East Sussex yesterday shortly before the London to Brighton train passed . |
| 28 | Captain Green , 41 , had been standing with other men from the Royal Artillery 's 32nd Heavy Regiment after a training exercise in Alberta , Canada , when he was hit . |
| 29 | What had happened in Amsterdam at the Strickers ' had stunned him — as if he had been standing too long ‘ against a church wall ’ . |
| 30 | I WOULD like to say how much I have enjoyed listening to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock , right , while he has been standing in for Jimmy Young on Radio 2 . |