Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been walking " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 2 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 3 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've been walking for a week . ’ |
| 10 | It used to lead lead to Station and er I 've seen these two when I 've been walking around , I 've seen them take their head up and lift me off the ground . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've been walking up and down Fleet Street , if you want to know , ’ he said , ‘ to see whether I could still show my face in public . |
| 12 | Oh you hear it , it 's rung for as much as twenty minutes while I 've been walking round . |
| 13 | I 've been walking round with them like this all day . |
| 14 | I have been walking a great deal , he wrote . |
| 15 | ‘ Sir , ’ said a voice , ‘ in your place , I would have refreshed myself some inches upstream from my feet , for I have been walking in these boots for months , and the juice flowing away from me can not be sweet . |
| 16 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've been walking my dog ! ’ |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She had been walking back along the track , head bent , deep in thought . |
| 22 | She had been walking slowly back to the terrace doors with him jogging at her elbow . |
| 23 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 24 | Over the past week you have been walking away a minimum of 300 calories a day during your walk , and your increased metabolic rate will have been burning up another few hundred calories when you have finished walking . |
| 25 | ‘ I had jungle-boots on , and we 'd been walking through the forest all day . |
| 26 | ‘ We 'd been walking all day , brushing through great webs of giant spiders , and at one stage I looked back at Adrian Arbin , who I was with , and it was like a horror film — his face was running with blood , blood running into his eyes , down his neck , staining his shirt . |
| 27 | ‘ We 've been walking , ’ said Masha , rather red in the cheeks . |
| 28 | ‘ We 've been walking around all night . |
| 29 | Well we 've been walking , I mean we ai n't been out this week . |
| 30 | Oh well we 've been walking when we 've gone into town but I mean just between you and me but when I got home Bev said pop into town I 've got a parcel to post and I said well I ca n't I said because according to Des well nothing happened |