Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 2 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 3 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 4 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 5 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 6 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 7 | She had been feeling like this about Dr Russell for nearly a year . |
| 8 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 9 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 10 | Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side . |
| 11 | ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons . |
| 12 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 13 | 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 ? ’ |
| 14 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 15 | Five minutes later he came in trying to tell tell us jokes and each time he 'd been paddling through this brake fluid and the carpet is just you know , brains |
| 16 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |