Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] been walking " in BNC.
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| 1 | SIR Edward du Cann has been walking a financial tightrope for so long that the only surprise is that it has taken him so long finally to fall off . |
| 2 | Mahoney had been walking down the street on his way to the Bonanza Club when he was shot down . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | Frances had been walking along a pavement in Oxford when she was hit from behind . |
| 7 | Mr Fraser had been walking on the moors with his wife and daughter when he was taken ill at about 5.30pm on Sunday . |
| 8 | Miguel had been walking round , chatting to guests . |
| 9 | 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 . |