Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was n't wearing the suit he 'd been wearing in Furnival Gardens . |
| 2 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 3 | The conversation had been unsettling in other ways . |
| 4 | Andronikos had been digging in northern Greece for some 25 years when he discovered a vault in one of the narrow streets in the village of Virghina , west of Salonika . |
| 5 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 6 | She had been moving in large ellipses , crossing and recrossing her path in a complicated pattern . |
| 7 | There seems little doubt that suspicion and resentment had been festering in Pakistani minds since long before this series began . |
| 8 | One hundred years ago this month a distinguished group of chemists met in Geneva to resolve a crisis that had been developing in organic chemistry . |
| 9 | To support his family , which had been living in grinding poverty in a squalid tenement , he had to emigrate in 1903 to the USA . |
| 10 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 11 | The blinding headaches he had been experiencing in recent weeks were taking their toll , and he looked grey and drawn when he arrived home . |
| 12 | Griffiths , of Thurlby Road , Redcar , who had been staying in Kentish Town , admitted criminally damaging the telephone booth . |
| 13 | The nucleus of the new squadron was provided mainly by ‘ C ’ Flight of 261 Squadron , the unit 's ground component being provided by the latter unit and by 1430 Flight , an army co-operation unit which had been operating in Italian East Africa until the previous month , when the main campaign there had been satisfactorily completed . |
| 14 | All performed creditably and indeed Patel was such a revelation that onlookers must have wondered why he had been languishing in other teams for so much of the season . |
| 15 | A frisson of disbelief and unease passed though the male patrons as the woman they had been watching in simulated copulation on the screen materialised in the flesh before their very eyes . |
| 16 | In addition the gas industry had been investing in expensive pipeline and other transportation systems to import gas from Canada , Mexico and Algeria , in anticipation of a continuing supply shortfall which the Natural Gas Policy Act effectively removed , in the short term at least . |
| 17 | He had been running in international events since the Olympics of 1932 . ’ |
| 18 | This confirmed rumours which had been circulating in previous months . |
| 19 | They had been paddling in tension-filled silence for some time when he spoke . |
| 20 | I can certainly agree with my hon. Friend — that incident was most regrettable , particularly in light of the fact that the human rights record of Indonesia had been improving in recent years . |
| 21 | Linford , despite his shenanigans , was quietly confident ; Ray Stewart had been improving in recent weeks , as had the fast-starting American Lee Macrae . |
| 22 | Dr Kelleher had been working in close cooperation with Dr Laurent and there had been long consultations in the Pathology Lab . |
| 23 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 24 | He had grown up in Weston-super-Mare and had been working in local radio in Bristol before joining us in the mid 1970s . |
| 25 | The 20,000 urns and vases had been lying in deep salt water for 302 years . |
| 26 | His bait had been lying in three inches of water ! |
| 27 | They had been talking in low voices . |
| 28 | It was hard luck on Steinmark , that went without saying , but if the man had been lurking in disreputable quarters and lurching home drunk , it was his own fault . |