Example sentences of "[noun] had been walking " in BNC.

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1 Mahoney had been walking down the street on his way to the Bonanza Club when he was shot down .
2 A colleague working in the laboratory to which Dr Sasaki had been walking was dead ; Dr Sasaki 's patient whom he had just left was also dead .
3 A man had been walking over the ground outside .
4 Mr Norrie had been walking along Leith 's Great Junction Street on Friday evening when he saw two youths approaching him .
5 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 .
6 The woods were extensive and the two men had been walking about the property for over an hour .
7 Frances had been walking along a pavement in Oxford when she was hit from behind .
8 Mr Fraser had been walking on the moors with his wife and daughter when he was taken ill at about 5.30pm on Sunday .
9 Miguel had been walking round , chatting to guests .
10 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 .
11 The victim had been walking along the Springfield Road with her four-year-old daughter when the accident happened on Wednesday .
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