Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pers pn] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suddenly remembered I 'd been intending to call Connors in any case . |
| 2 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 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 | ‘ Labour members saw the letter I had sent and automatically assumed I had been misusing the Commons franking machine . |
| 5 | Amiss suspected they had been hammering the port harder than ever the previous night . |
| 6 | 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 . |