Example sentences of "[conj] we [vb past] been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Exactly where we had been swimming that morning . |
| 2 | And then little did he know when he used to leave them in the house , in the back yard , that we 'd been pinching some of them . |
| 3 | Yeah , well even Laura like she eats salad at school like you know , but erm , she 's got erm , what did we have the other night cos we 'd been eating semi semi Mediterranean food this week |
| 4 | The 135 hp engine was used to operating on 80 octane fuel but we had been using 130 octane avgas . |
| 5 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |