Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rapist , who has been living rough in wooded , hilly countryside , grabbed his latest victim in a village near Chippenham , Wilts . |
| 2 | Mark who was born in the capital , has been living rough in Nottingham . |
| 3 | Pilar has been living alone in the huge house and has struggled to maintain it with four staff . |
| 4 | Hard experimental evidence for the existence of this energy has been lacking due to the imperfections of both chemical and molecular physics , as well as self-imposed restrictions on the imagination . |
| 5 | The star has been getting used to the infatuations of Luke-crazed girls . |
| 6 | Recently , the Atari ST has been selling bundled with £400-£500 worth of games for £399 . |
| 7 | The tank has an undergravel filter and a internal filter and has been running problem-free for about four months . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | People living near a rubbish tip which has been burning unchecked for six weeks fear their health is at risk . |
| 10 | A privately owned half-timbered cottage ( mostly 16th-century ) with pantiled roof and porches , it has been standing empty for years |
| 11 | My husband has been practising dying for years . |
| 12 | Jill is 60 , and , since she retired early from her job as a dinner lady , has been caring full-time for her 90-year-old bedridden mother and for her husband who has Parkinson 's disease . |
| 13 | The farmers from this village own land in the Buffer Zone that has been lying fallow for fourteen years , but which is now being opened up . |
| 14 | ‘ But it 's a lot of money for something which has been lying dead for twelve years . ’ |
| 15 | If the tool has be lying idle for some months it is likely the charge has partially drained , so it is a good idea to regularly use these tools . |
| 16 | We 'd been playing safe for our own survival , and scores of heterosexuals went unchallenged in their continued acts of heterosexism . |
| 17 | She felt great , better rested than she 'd felt for weeks now , the little aches of fatigue she 'd been growing used to now all miraculously ironed out . |
| 18 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 19 | They 'd been sitting still for too long . |
| 20 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 21 | Any other woman would have been spitting angry at being kept waiting for four and a half hours . |
| 22 | ‘ It must have been getting light at about seven o'clock . |
| 23 | At this period the players must have been getting sick of the sight of each other , for just another few months and England were playing their first one-day games in the West Indies . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We heard today they were supposed to have been getting engaged to er a seventy year old woman ! |
| 26 | Who 's , the one who 's supposed to have been getting engaged to son , and they call him David . |
| 27 | These territories appear to have been breaking free from West Saxon domination and it may be that Ine 's weakening hold on Surrey at this time reflects either renewed Kentish influence in the area or a stage in the growth of the power of Aethelbald . |
| 28 | ‘ At the time of the murder he appears to have been lying low in a barn near Gainsborough . |
| 29 | A Planning Committee had been meeting weekly in 1969 , but the College had not wanted to be too rigid in imposing teaching methods . |
| 30 | It was again as if she had been struck , her hands barely moving along the surface of the dresser she had been wiping clean of dust , her head going low , and when she finished she went to put the damp cloth carefully beside the sink , moving a simmering saucepan from the hotplate . |