Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] i had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was so relieved to hear this as I had been canoeing many times before and so could remain warm and dry while watching many of the younger cadets freeze to death . |
| 2 | Because of the track , navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover . |
| 3 | I put down a bit less than I had been drinking . |
| 4 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 5 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 6 | I checked through my notes to make sure I had the correct dates , aware I had the correct dates , aware that I had been finding it hard to concentrate . |