Example sentences of "[verb] been walking [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 2 | He 'd been walking home after celebrating starting a new job after nine months on the dole when he was set upon . |
| 3 | They had been walking slowly ; now he stopped and pulled Robyn around so that she was standing in front of him . |
| 4 | She had been walking slowly back to the terrace doors with him jogging at her elbow . |
| 5 | Two figures who had been walking ahead of them , suddenly turned and came sauntering back . |
| 6 | She had been walking away from him towards the path that led to the gate and she turned her head and said , ‘ Did n't want to disturb you ; you looked so peaceful , asleep . ’ |
| 7 | He had been walking away alone after the meeting . |
| 8 | He was glad of the moon , for he had been walking away from the road and the quarry for a long time and had reached the rising , stony ground at the foot of the foin . |
| 9 | Maybe the Fax machine was in one of the outbuildings , but they were the other side of the yard near the barn and Cawthorne had been walking away from them . |
| 10 | He mumbled that he was still in a state of shock and had been walking around in a dream all day . |
| 11 | Miguel had been walking round , chatting to guests . |
| 12 | Hatton had been walking along in the dark and someone had waited for him among the willows and the brambles , the stone ready for use . |
| 13 | Frances had been walking along a pavement in Oxford when she was hit from behind . |
| 14 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 15 | She and Jack , the boy she had been walking out with , were saving up so that they could buy the shop from old Mr Peabody , who wanted to retire . |
| 16 | Although previously I had been walking only on weekends , I was now walking up to five times a week for half an hour at a time . |
| 17 | She had been walking back along the track , head bent , deep in thought . |
| 18 | It used to lead lead to Station and er I 've seen these two when I 've been walking around , I 've seen them take their head up and lift me off the ground . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've been walking around all night . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been walking up and down Fleet Street , if you want to know , ’ he said , ‘ to see whether I could still show my face in public . |
| 21 | Oh you hear it , it 's rung for as much as twenty minutes while I 've been walking round . |
| 22 | I 've been walking round with them like this all day . |
| 23 | Over the past week you have been walking away a minimum of 300 calories a day during your walk , and your increased metabolic rate will have been burning up another few hundred calories when you have finished walking . |
| 24 | Time flows strangely and travellers become lost for years although they think they have been walking only hours . |