Example sentences of "[pron] had been [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 2 | But after the Salzburg concert I had been offered only a kind of ‘ trial ’ , just one performance of someone else 's production . |
| 3 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 4 | She had been riding along a road with a little girl and Clare 's small pony Kizzy on a leading rein . |
| 5 | She had been brought up a good Church of England girl — she knew the drill . |
| 6 | She had been brought up a Unitarian , but about the time of her brother 's death she decided to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 7 | There were beds available for those with particular problems , such as those who had been injecting over a long period . |
| 8 | ‘ It did n't hurt too much because we had been training twice a week for over two months . |
| 9 | Soon after , she recognized in a certain strain of feminist theory an approach to language which had much in common with the approach she herself had been developing over a number of years . |
| 10 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 11 | It had been announced only a month ago that she was expecting her first child and would probably be leaving after the spring term . |
| 12 | Delaney had a split second to realise that all along it had been setting up a trap for them . |
| 13 | ‘ The ferocity of the fire suggested it had been going quite a while before it was discovered . |
| 14 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 15 | Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past . |
| 16 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |