Example sentences of "[pron] had been [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 2 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
| 3 | And I had been loading for the Major the last time that I was out shooting , the last time for me like . |
| 4 | Although Eliot considered this idea a good one , especially in view of the articles I had been writing for the New English Weekly ( for example , ‘ Italy must Choose ; and ‘ An Open Letter to Ansaldo ’ , which Mairet had forwarded to the spokesman in question and also to the Vatican ) , he felt that such a book issued in time of war , would need official backing . |
| 5 | I had been training throughout the winter and Andy , as promised , sneaked me some races in the summer . |
| 6 | About a fortnight before that , and ten days after the night at the prison , I had been passing along the road , with my arm through Martinho 's , when I had cause to do a double-take on a group of beggars by the roadside . |
| 7 | On the boat , I had been reading about the shooting of Fergal Caraher at the South Armagh checkpoint at Cullyhanna and now , in the darkness , as details of the story flooded back , I decided against pressing the buzzer . |
| 8 | ‘ I had been looking at the world ratings and the draw certainly is n't what I had expected , ’ said Gregg . |
| 9 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 10 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 11 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 12 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 13 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |
| 14 | Meanwhile I continued the strategy I had been following for the previous two terms : feigning compliance with the authorities and responding co-operatively to their apparent concern , while continuing to eat minimally and to purge in secret . |
| 15 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 16 | I had been shooting in the lonely hills in the north of England . |
| 17 | Cameraman Martyn Colbeck , our Russian and Tadjik helpers and I had been filming in the mountains and soda lakes of the eastern Pamirs , a few miles from the Chinese border . |
| 18 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
| 19 | I had been working for the Countess as a personal assistant since she married the Earl in 1976 . |
| 20 | Someone had been looking after the garden , you could see that . |
| 21 | I thought , I thought someone had been smoking in the toilets . |
| 22 | The report focused on a United States pharmaceutical company , Velsicol Chemical Corporation , which had been exporting to the Third World large quantities of chlordane and heptachlor , " two of the most highly toxic persistent and bio-accumulative insecticides ever made " according to the report . |
| 23 | I stopped in mid-stride , so suddenly that an oystercatcher , which had been guddling among the reeds at the edge of the lochan , took off seawards with a screamed complaint . |
| 24 | The coordinator Rebecca Johnson says they failed to re-establish contact with the vessel , which had been protesting against the resumption of nuclear testing on the island . |
| 25 | In 1613 , for example , the king married his daughter Elizabeth to Frederick of the Palatinate , one of the leading figures of European Calvinism ; similarly , in 1618 four representatives of the English church attended the Synod of Dort , the conference called to resolve the bitter dispute which had been raging in the United Provinces over the doctrine of predestination . |
| 26 | The large dining room which had been airing for the past week had passed its final inspection although Mrs Lundy had insisted that the maids cleaned the windows and French doors one more time . |
| 27 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 28 | An agricultural relief committee was established in 1983 by a handful of young agricultural engineers , some of whom had already been working with ‘ the voluntary work committees ’ , a network of skilled and unskilled workers which had been operating since the mid-1970s . |
| 29 | The freeing of political parties in March 1990 led to the formation of numerous new parties and the emergence as official opposition of some of those which had been operating within the FNDR . |
| 30 | Raynor had fetched wine from a corner cupboard , and was heating it with a thin iron rod which had been resting in the fire 's embers . |