Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [vb past] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 2 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 3 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 4 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 5 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 6 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 7 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 8 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 9 | Imagine you had been living on bread and water for three years and then someone put a large bowl of cherries on the table in front of you . |
| 10 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 11 | He had said he had been fighting with another man . |
| 12 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 13 | After a while she realised she 'd been beating at him with her fists hard enough to hurt and yet he had n't lifted a finger to stop her . |
| 14 | He 's going to be ages , thought Juliet desperately , suddenly realising she 'd been standing with her hands clenched together , and her eyes screwed tightly as if to hear better . |
| 15 | The sergeant saw her eyes were dim with sadness and he guessed she had been thinking about her former husband . |
| 16 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 17 | The man claimed he had been looking for his girlfriend when challenged by staff members . |
| 18 | She discovered she 'd been sleeping on her back . |
| 19 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 20 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 21 | A lady phoned in saying she 'd been sitting in a café when some animal rights campaigners carrying collection tins arrived and ordered a meal . |
| 22 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
| 23 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 24 | I thought , I thought someone had been smoking in the toilets . |
| 25 | ‘ I gather she 'd been looking into drugs a few weeks back and then into child porn . |
| 26 | He was making her act like a gauche schoolgirl — Aurora Blake , who could hold thousands spellbound with the power of her voice , who could mix happily with kings and commoners — stammering apologetically because a man who had wandered unwanted and uninvited into her garden knew she 'd been looking at him ! |
| 27 | They knew she 'd been drinking on the way in . |
| 28 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 29 | They knew we 'd been talking to their pop idols and they just wanted to touch us . |
| 30 | He knew there had been fighting about Charleroi , and he had heard of some skirmishes being fought in the villages south of the Prince of Orange 's headquarters , but whether the French had invaded in force , or whether there was an attack coming in the direction of Mons , the Duke still did not know . |