Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't until later , when Robyn heard Anne 's key in the lock , that she realised just how long she had been staring into space , miserably going over and over the disastrous weekend , in a futile attempt to try and put it all back into some sort of perspective . |
| 2 | So she had been asking after him . |
| 3 | So they 'd been talking about it already . |
| 4 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
| 5 | Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover . |
| 6 | Perhaps he 'd been referring to someone else as well ? |
| 7 | The book was all he had been waiting for , and all was going according to plan . |
| 8 | Obviously he had been listening to the battle . |
| 9 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 10 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 11 | He is very strict , and would dismiss me if he found out I 'd been interfering with his books . |
| 12 | But after that Pete had sworn that he 'd touch nothing stronger than tapwater for the rest of the evening , and so far he 'd been sticking to it . |
| 13 | Who would ever guess from the benign expression on his face that just a moment ago he had been exploding with anger ? |
| 14 | Presumably he 'd been watching from somewhere . |
| 15 | A few days earlier I had been thinking of calling my doctor to assess the chances of having my vasectomy reversed in order to save my marriage to Karen . |
| 16 | When she had left Madam Lundy 's presence earlier she had been shivering with reaction , but that had now passed , leaving her calm , her options clear . |
| 17 | Thirty minutes earlier she had been going up the stairs to read the newspaper on the toilet . |
| 18 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 19 | Maybe they 'd been meeting in secret for a while . |
| 20 | Since then he had been farming at Mullu , some fifteen miles outside Addis Ababa . |
| 21 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 22 | In October , in a similarly light-hearted vein , he recounted to Virginia Woolf how he had been sitting in the wings of the Westminster Theatre ( where Sweeney Agonistes was playing ) and , on another occasion , lighting fireworks in the company of John Hayward and W. H. Auden . |
| 23 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 24 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 25 | I had or had had cancer — a most serious disease — yet I had been talking as if it was all a joke . |
| 26 | ‘ I fancied a change of scene from London where I 'd been working with the Bank of England in-house catering team ’ she said . |
| 27 | Irena produced a suit from somewhere — I had nothing appropriate to wear and the Czechs dress up to go out — and on a cold wet evening Miroslav , who once behind his bassoon could n't stop smiling , dragged me in off Red Army Square where I 'd been waiting under an umbrella watching a group of Czech soldiers trying to stand up , and escorted me up to the balcony of the Fucik Hall to watch the performance . |
| 28 | She 'd set off at 2pm from TV-am , where she 'd been working since 8am on The Wide Awake Club . |
| 29 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 30 | She then pointed to the recipe — Turkish Stuffing for a whole Roast Sheep — delighted by the disparity between the thought of this sheep and the few ounces of meat a week which begun jotting down recipes for this book after she had been sent back to England in 1945 , owing to her health , from New Delhi , where she had been living with her husband . |