Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |
| 2 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 3 | I had just been reading in the Daily Minute about the string of beatings and manslaughters in Rosalind Court : the night before last a Jap computer expert and a German dentist had been found in a parking lot with their faces stomped off . |
| 4 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 5 | I had just been talking with Jenny about her family , yourself and Mrs Connon , that same Saturday night . ’ |
| 6 | I had never been walking with flags before . |
| 7 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
| 8 | But peering more closely he could see that someone had recently been writing with a fountain pen . |
| 9 | The Wall Street crash of 1929 was severe enough , by itself , to reduce wealth in the American economy substantially , and thus to cut personal and business spending ( which had already been falling for two months ) . |
| 10 | The range of goods they were able to carry was welcomed in the area , as well as lunchtime sandwich facilities which had previously been missing in the neighbourhood . |
| 11 | Some of the most surprising issues of contemporary Britain arise in areas like Cornwall or mid Wales , which had previously been suffering from the decline of population and employment . |
| 12 | Returning to our historical outline and intimately connected with this new notion of female impurity , was the development of an increased rigidity in attitude toward and definition of function within the family group — something which had gradually been happening before the sixth century but which was accelerated and refined by the experience of the exile . |
| 13 | All she knew was that she was turning into McAllister again , Dr Neil 's pert and lively maid , and that this was the haven which she had unconsciously been seeking in the months since Havvie Blaine had assaulted her . |
| 14 | What decided her in the end was that the new job specification covered much of the work she had already been doing at Stoy 's for C&R and she was loth to let it go . |
| 15 | She knew all that and , more , she had actually been passing at the time . |
| 16 | She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected . |
| 17 | She had still been smarting from her unjust dismissal for ‘ over-familiarity with the management ’ at Ardis & Co , when she had wasted no time in squashing two men in particular at Vasey 's who had shown more interest in her than in their work . |
| 18 | To talk to them , you would think she had still been playing with toys . |
| 19 | And then , of course , six years ago she had still been reeling from the shock of Tony 's death . |
| 20 | ‘ It could be the killer was somebody who had just been passing by the apartment block . ’ |
| 21 | Standing there in shade , I observed the man and woman who had also been eating in the hotel emerge with their child . |
| 22 | Amongst dramatic recoveries were two chronically deaf patients who had also been suffering from totally disabling tinnitus . |
| 23 | Just then my sister , who had secretly been listening outside the forge , called to Joe through one of the windows , ‘ You fool ! |
| 24 | Rachel , who had already been battling with unpredictable sensations brought on by the close proximity of David clad only in his brief black swimming-trunks , felt her cheeks flame and could n't bring herself to look at him . |
| 25 | The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days . |
| 26 | Those army commanders who had still been hoping for a coup realized that all such hope was now lost . |
| 27 | ‘ Nevertheless , ’ said Jordan Warrender , one of his senior counsellors who had recently been travelling in Europe , ostensibly on holiday , actually on a tricky diplomatic mission , but who had looked up the Parslows on finding them in Venice , ‘ she is most definitely not with them . |
| 28 | She was saved from that particular choice by a boy of about seven , who had apparently been playing with his train set in the porch . |
| 29 | The main stumbling block had been the appointment of its chair [ see pp. 37712 ; 37777 ; 37858 ] , a problem temporarily resolved on Dec. 11 when Prince Norodom Sihanouk , who had hitherto been pressing for the chairmanship , called on the SNC to " stop talking about the chairmanship and vice-chairmanship … and have the 12 SNC members , on an equal footing , work for peace " . |
| 30 | Viewer , the add-in that lets you see the contents of files still on disk , has been improved and now allows the import of ASCII text and now lets you save the current worksheet and retrieve a new file in a single command — so reducing the risk of +:F7 you loosing the work you had just been doing before using it ! |