Example sentences of "i have been [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | For what it is worth , I have been saving in this way for years myself . |
| 2 | Since 1964 , when I first worked ( and lived ) in the region , what I have been seeing in babies and young children is starvation : a host of children of one and two years who can not sit up unaided , who do not or can not speak , whose skin is stretched so tightly over the chest and stomach that every curve of the breastbone and ribs stands out . |
| 3 | Recently the coal measure type of cycle has been very plausibly explained in terms of climatically controlled ice-sheet surges , and we can very soon get lost in a multitude of explanations of the phenomena I have been discussing in this book . |
| 4 | I HAVE been reading in the News about whether or not there is some justification for today 's young men being a bit too pushy towards girls . |
| 5 | FOR 40 years , I have been dealing in a wide variety of paintings ranging from Old Masters to French Impressionists , Dutch Romantics to modern British pictures . |
| 6 | Without knowing it I have been living in poverty for the past 14 years . |
| 7 | Since Tuesday , when I went to tea with Ivy , I have been living in a dream of confusion and discomfort . |
| 8 | ‘ I have been living in a Social Services Home for about seven years . |
| 9 | I have been living in the city for three years and if I were to go to the estates now they would n't give me work . |
| 10 | I have been living in the same bungalow now for 10 years , and it seems no easier now than it was 10 years ago to find staff . |
| 11 | I have been living in Britain since 1970 , almost half of my life has been spent here . |
| 12 | I have been living in this area for over a year now , and I still have n't made any friends . |
| 13 | ‘ No , I am American , from the East Coast , but I have been living in England for some time . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I have been living in a bed and breakfast for the past 15 months with my kids and me in the one room . |
| 15 | I have been trekking in Nepal several times , and so I am acquainted with the conditions that I might encounter on a winter trip . |
| 16 | The Ballet Club paid a second visit to Johannesburg in July 1944 , and John wrote to Hanns , exclaiming jubilantly that ‘ We arranged for me to have meals at the Carlton , so I have been dining in style this week ! ’ |
| 17 | Although the survey was carried out in 1987 , and events in education have moved on with amazing rapidity since then , many of the conclusions that can be drawn from the interviews seem to have retained their relevance , particularly in the context of the issue I have been exploring in this chapter . |
| 18 | For over thirty years I have been teaching in the public schools of New York City . |
| 19 | Mike just a point of information I have been teaching in Harlow for twenty years and I 've never been asked by anybody at the playhouse what play 's who 's like to see in my school . |
| 20 | ‘ I might not be the youngest but I have a great deal of knowledge which I have been using in the field of local and regional government for years . ’ |
| 21 | Erm I 'd like to refer to my page three or er section four in my conclusions because I think if I if I heard Professor Lock correctly I think he and I are at one in in a suggestion which is is put to you in in if you like without prejudice to the generality of what I have been saying in support of the council 's policy . |
| 22 | You know , since last night , I have been indulging in a series of small fantasies … ’ |
| 23 | Every year several of the participants have said to me , ‘ I have been studying in Britain for a year , but this is the first time I have been inside a British home ’ . |
| 24 | In recent days , he wrote , perhaps because Spring is upon us , I have been putting in the hours but the intensity has gone . |
| 25 | I have been sitting in this armchair for about an hour . |
| 26 | How can teachers be prepared to undertake the process of pragmatic mediation that I have been proposing in these chapters ? |
| 27 | ‘ Sir , ’ said a voice , ‘ in your place , I would have refreshed myself some inches upstream from my feet , for I have been walking in these boots for months , and the juice flowing away from me can not be sweet . |
| 28 | As a graduate in art history I have been working in the commercial fine art market for several years and frankly I am tired of hearing how galleries make soul destroying demands on artists to become more commercial . |
| 29 | It is this assumption which I have been questioning in this paper . |