Example sentences of "[pron] had been [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On a course recently someone suggested I had been talking too much and should be told to keep quiet . |
| 2 | That evening I went to the Charity Gala Evening in aid of Birthright , and the Keats- Shelley Memorial Association , at the Grosvenor House Antiques Fair which had been opened earlier that day by Prince Edward . |
| 3 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 4 | On the eve of her seventh birthday , Nanny told Artemis that she had been invited downstairs that very afternoon to take tea with her father . |
| 5 | She had known why Mr Evans had sent Hepzibah biscuits ; had known that he wanted her to spy , to keep her eyes open , and it seemed that without meaning to she had been doing just that ! |
| 6 | But yesterday , as she nursed the baby she had been praying so many years for , she said : ‘ I never gave up hope . ’ |
| 7 | Crooking an index finger , she summoned a waiter and proceeded to inform him that she had been waiting fully half an hour for her pancakes and that it would not do . |
| 8 | It was an elderly gypsy who had been sitting silently all evening , and the voice was as rough as the open road but when it sang the room became quiet . |
| 9 | Something had been waiting there all my life . |
| 10 | Previous to this we had been left very much to our own resources . |
| 11 | One day , after we had been working together all afternoon without much success , Dana without warning lay back on the bed , his head on the pillow . |
| 12 | There was no covert there larger than an acre or two and they had been placed as much for their scenic effect as for their game-preserving role . |
| 13 | They had been conversing easily all afternoon . |
| 14 | She had seen so many of the students set out from her door , awkward and anxious , and after a few weeks it was as if they had been studying there all their lives . |
| 15 | It had been noted previously that certain phonological features characteristic of West Belfast where both Clonard and Andersonstown were located were also characteristic of the mid-Ulster dialect spoken in Lurgan ( as opposed to the Ulster-Scots dialect of Belfast 's northern and eastern hinterland ) . |
| 16 | It 's over 220 yards , of course , and it had been playing long all week . |
| 17 | It had been agreed implicitly that group relief should be deducted from profits only once . |
| 18 | What a fool he had been to waste so much time being " poetic " and not eating . |
| 19 | The beer he had been drinking steadily all day was now weighing heavily on his stomach . |
| 20 | Hindley Earnshaw should have been at Catherine 's burial yesterday , but he had been drinking so much that he could n't go . |
| 21 | He had been saving as much as possible from the grant in the hope of amassing a small sum which would tide him over until he could find a local job . |
| 22 | At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed . |
| 23 | He had been given so many things to digest , not the least that it was possible Celia might have a father still living . |
| 24 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 25 | The party set off downstream along the river bank and Rostov concentrated on making it look as if he had been riding bareback all his life . |
| 26 | Like most defectors , Lyalin was suffering from delusions of grandeur and it was hard to judge whether he had been reading too much of Pincher 's material or books by Le Queux dating from the turn of the century . |
| 27 | And for the last five years he had been doing just that . |
| 28 | The Russian race , on which the competitors were accommodated on a train following the race route , proved to be a harrowing experience for Zarei , but not because he had been doing too much running . |
| 29 | He had been hurt so much by life that he had to laugh at it and there was not a trace of bitterness in him . |
| 30 | He thought he was covered to drive another vehicle , and said he had been told as much on the telephone by his insurers . |