Example sentences of "[pron] [pers pn] had been [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 2 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 3 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 4 | Next day she called again , and then the ‘ witch ’ took her into the kitchen and showed her what she had been making all that morning — toffee-apples ! |
| 5 | She had never known any other man but Dan , but after tonight she was more than aware of what she had been missing all these years . |
| 6 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 7 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |