Example sentences of "[pron] had been doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 2 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 3 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 4 | And you never asked me what I had been doing . |
| 5 | I had been doing you an injustice ; but I am going to make a will leaving you all I have . |
| 6 | I went reinforced too by all I had been doing for myself and with the knowledge that I felt better than I had felt for some time and that that growth towards well being appeared to be increasing with each day . |
| 7 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 8 | It was in that frame of mind that I moved into the Olympic year indoor season , saying , as I had been doing for a long time , ‘ In ‘ 88 , I 'll graduate ! ’ |
| 9 | My initial homesickness at school soon gave way to a dread of going home , home to a place where no one understood me , no one spoke the same language as I did , and no one showed the slightest interest in what I had been doing , thinking or feeling during my absence . |
| 10 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
| 11 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 12 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 13 | You see , I had been doing something about my own future , too . |
| 14 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 15 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 16 | I had been doing my best to mime the odd prayer since my dad died , but I had a feeling she saw through me . |
| 17 | The colonel wanted to know what I had been doing and who I had talked to . |
| 18 | I had been doing about 15mph when this traumatic event occurred . |
| 19 | Then , abjectly , as if engaged in reflection that gave back only its own dullness , she completed the tasks she had been doing and , without saying a word to the expectant children , left the room . |
| 20 | She plunged into the crowds , who had turned out in their thousands to greet her , as though she had been doing it all her life . |
| 21 | Rather desperately , Celia steered the conversation round to her and Brian 's new house in the country , how Alison and Geoffrey must come and stay , that they would be less than fifty miles apart ; while Alison , obviously thankful to turn to less delicate matters , regaled her with a description of all she had been doing in her garden and some rather dull anecdotes about the neighbours whom Celia and Brian had met on their last visit . |
| 22 | Meredith told him what she had been doing since they last met and Markby gave a summary of his own activities . |
| 23 | They had watched her , in the council estate , they knew what she had been doing . |
| 24 | She had known why Mr Evans had sent Hepzibah biscuits ; had known that he wanted her to spy , to keep her eyes open , and it seemed that without meaning to she had been doing just that ! |
| 25 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 26 | David gave up his job as the headmaster of a primary school near St Helens in Lancashire earlier this year , his wife , Vicky gave up the job of supply teaching she had been doing and , with their two children , Jonathan ( 11 ) and Patrick ( 5 ) , set off in May last year for some serious cruising , which includes going transatlantic with the ARC . |
| 27 | of course , that 's exactly what she had been doing . |
| 28 | Planning is just what she had been doing . |
| 29 | The thought came into her mind that , while she had been doing that , Alain had been here , going out on his splendid machine , coming home to talk to his mother and to her father . |
| 30 | She remembered quite clearly what she had been doing scarce ten minutes ago . |