Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [pers pn] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She moved to the table , put her keys down , suddenly realising she had been clutching them tightly . |
| 2 | He would soon realise he had been acting stupidly and feel sorry for his bad temper . |
| 3 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 4 | Marc had already admitted he had been leading her on to see what she would do . |
| 5 | ‘ Labour members saw the letter I had sent and automatically assumed I had been misusing the Commons franking machine . |
| 6 | Redknapp added : ‘ The fans did n't realise I had been nursing a groin strain . |
| 7 | Amiss suspected they had been hammering the port harder than ever the previous night . |
| 8 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |