Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been walking " in BNC.
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| 31 | James had stayed behind and Lewis had been sullen for the half-hour or so they 'd been walking before suddenly announcing he wanted to be alone . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | ‘ 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 . |
| 34 | They had been walking slowly ; now he stopped and pulled Robyn around so that she was standing in front of him . |
| 35 | They had been walking for less than ten minutes when it began to spit . |
| 36 | He had told Mr Gibson they had been walking past the barn and had gone in for shelter . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | Time flows strangely and travellers become lost for years although they think they have been walking only hours . |
| 39 | All these delays are particularly galling , as Jeremy was found less than two kilometres from the glacial lakes where he 'd been walking . |
| 40 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 41 | He 'd been walking home after celebrating starting a new job after nine months on the dole when he was set upon . |
| 42 | He told Heatley that he had been walking along the footpath when the police had made a baton charge . |
| 43 | He had been walking on the riverbank observing a high tide . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | He had been walking away alone after the meeting . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | He had been walking for almost four hours . |
| 48 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route everyday for the last ten years . |
| 49 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |