Example sentences of "[pron] had been [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages . |
| 2 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 3 | For a while I had been ringing the Lost Property office at Queen Street station each week , still pathetically hoping that the bag with Uncle Rory 's poems and Darren Watt 's Möbius scarf would somehow miraculously turn up again . |
| 4 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 5 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 6 | Giovanna 's husband acquired a long garden cane , which had been supporting a tottering mallow , and with it established the depth . |
| 7 | Cardiff could see that he had attached a microphone of some kind to the metal container which still rested on the chair and which had been giving the so-called mysterious ‘ readings ’ . |
| 8 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 9 | She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt . |
| 10 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 11 | She did not confirm for them that she had been meeting an escaped prisoner and she did not explain the significance of the print-out , but they clearly knew the first and it would be only a short time before they worked out the second . |
| 12 | I was sure she had been holding a small phial with the letters ‘ SUL ’ written on it . |
| 13 | She had been expecting a small , dusty room filled with paintings draped in cloths that were thick with dust , where air would have a musty scent of old canvas and decay . |
| 14 | If she had been expecting an immediate outcry , she was sadly disappointed , but she was a determined young woman . |
| 15 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 16 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 17 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 18 | She had been having a little innocent fun . |
| 19 | True to the word , she had been adding a full bottle to her small garden pond on a weekly basis , for the past month . |
| 20 | She had been rehearsing a new song on the way to the Ritz , but did n't know who wrote it . |
| 21 | She had been reviewing the previous week on her walk to the rectory . |
| 22 | The final southbound working to run over the section from Dunford to Sheffield consisted of class 20 No. 20004 and a brake conveying a party of contractors who had been inspecting the remaining part of the route west of Penistone . |
| 23 | A young French assistant , who had been holding the white horse on which Duclos ranged the plantation each day , stepped forward at a signal from him and steadied the animal while he mounted . |
| 24 | At this point the young man , who had been reading a folded newspaper , looked up and said in a slightly truculent voice , ‘ Excuse me , madam , but that 's my pudding you 're about to eat . ’ |
| 25 | The Harp , who had been chasing a fifth consecutive Division One title , were also thrown out of the Queensferry Sports Challenge Cup and this decision was upheld by the Coast FA . |
| 26 | A large woman of formidable appearance , who had been passing the open door of the coffee lounge and whose attention had been caught by Amaranth 's evident distress , came over to them . |
| 27 | Meanwhile the warden 's cat , who had been enjoying a light snack in the dustbin , saw Emily , saw the milk , and that is all I can remember , it happened so quickly . |
| 28 | Sammy , who had been watching the slight twitching movements that Willie had made in his sleep , now stood at his feet . |
| 29 | When his case finally came up the evidence of the couple 's daughter , who had been watching the whole incident , was torn to shreds by Russell 's lawyer . |
| 30 | Diana , who had been expecting the two boys to join her at Althorp in Northamptonshire today , phoned them briefly yesterday morning . |