Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been sitting " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 2 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 3 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 4 | I got up , walked backwards towards the nearest dune , threw the can way high over the top of it , then came back , lay down where I 'd been sitting earlier , and closed my eyes . |
| 5 | Next I went to the Clerecia , where I had been sitting with Dana watching that wall-clock 's gift pendulum busily wagging away on the wall in front of the great baroque gilt altar . |
| 6 | Back in 1959 , I had been sitting one day in a Brighton coffee bar aptly named the Thieves ' Kitchen . |
| 7 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
| 8 | I heard this with embarrassment , remembering how terribly bored and miserable I had been sitting there on a long hot afternoon , hardly understanding a word as chiefs and elders talked to our delegation in local dialect . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd say you 'd been sitting out in the sun too long . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm sure she 'd been sitting there , but she was hardly wearing anything ! |
| 11 | So , when he 'd first laid eyes on Judith — she 'd been sitting behind a desk at his accountant 's offices , her beauty all the more luminous for its drab setting — his first thought was : I want this woman ; his second : she wo n't want me . |
| 12 | She 'd been sitting on the edge of the bed when they 'd arrived , two large uniformed men . |
| 13 | Her face and neck felt as if she 'd been sitting in the heat of an oven . |
| 14 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 15 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 16 | A lady phoned in saying she 'd been sitting in a café when some animal rights campaigners carrying collection tins arrived and ordered a meal . |
| 17 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 18 | At this point , a young woman who 'd been sitting on one of Bridget 's sofas jumped angrily to her feet and shouted at Geoffrey . |
| 19 | She fetched herself a packet of sandwiches from the counter and then came back to where she had been sitting . |
| 20 | The little girl was on her own a few yards from the rug where she had been sitting eating some moments before . |
| 21 | She had been sitting on the shingle staring out to sea , her arms clasped round her knees , Timmy lying asleep on the small rug beside her . |
| 22 | Mrs Denham refused his offer , and tucked the baby under one arm , and started to drag the blanket she had been sitting on after her into the house . |
| 23 | She had been sitting still in her seat . |
| 24 | She had been sitting on the edge of the bed , and now she leaned forward to take the other woman 's hand again . |
| 25 | It seemed that when he had arrested the thief , and reported to Sergia , she had been sitting in an ornate chair made of a local high-gloss hardwood . |
| 26 | She had no fire in her bedroom , where she had been sitting waiting for his call , and staring at the dying mistletoe . |
| 27 | Not until she had been sitting there for several minutes did Isabel realise that no sound at all had come from her torn and bleeding lips . |
| 28 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 29 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
| 30 | Then , turning , she made way for him to enter , and went immediately to the window seat where she had been sitting wrapped in her duvet when Peter had disturbed her . |