Example sentences of "[pron] had been walking " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 2 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 3 | I knew there were other bags of cubes in the kitchen refrigerator , so , feeling that I had been walking the train for a lifetime , I went along through the dining room to fetch some . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 6 | I had been walking towards a closed door , and by a sudden magic its impenetrable wood became glass , through which I saw myself coming from the other direction , the future . |
| 7 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She felt as though someone had pushed her off the pleasant , grassy path on which she had been walking , and down a vast , black cliff-face . |
| 11 | She had been walking back along the track , head bent , deep in thought . |
| 12 | She had been walking slowly back to the terrace doors with him jogging at her elbow . |
| 13 | Two figures who had been walking ahead of them , suddenly turned and came sauntering back . |
| 14 | Benjamin , who had been walking for a month , found himself less welcome in his mother 's room and followed Ruth around the house like a pet lamb . |
| 15 | When they landed there was no choice but to start the ten-mile journey to Achnacarry Castle on foot , so they set off , even though they had been walking all day . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 17 | They had been walking slowly ; now he stopped and pulled Robyn around so that she was standing in front of him . |
| 18 | They had been walking for less than ten minutes when it began to spit . |
| 19 | He had told Mr Gibson they had been walking past the barn and had gone in for shelter . |
| 20 | He had told her about the cannabis bed a few days ago when they had been walking in the garden and her eyes had widened in shock . |
| 21 | He told Heatley that he had been walking along the footpath when the police had made a baton charge . |
| 22 | He had been walking on the riverbank observing a high tide . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He had been walking away alone after the meeting . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | He had been walking for almost four hours . |
| 27 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route everyday for the last ten years . |
| 28 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |