Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been travelling " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been travelling the country flogging Soviet magazines — I was working for Collet 's bookshops — and I stayed with a comrade in Edinburgh who kept a boarding house . |
| 2 | For the last few minutes , she had been travelling in parallel to her previous route . |
| 3 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 4 | The time difference between London and Mexico City is six hours , and because we had been travelling with the sun , it was still quite high in the sky as we descended into the sepia haze that hung over the whole flat expanse of what had once been a great lake . |
| 5 | It was alleged that at first the railway company denied that they had been travelling on the train at all , and it was indeed suggested that the two children were chance victims of the holocaust and they happened to be wandering by the railway at the time . |
| 6 | One afternoon , after they had been travelling together for several days , Cleo ordered Dauntless to pull Contralto to a halt . |
| 7 | As we said earlier on , he had been they had been travelling through and Jesus had se settled down there for a while and sent his disciples into a , th a nearby town across the frontier , er to get some food and some provisions , er to last them for the remainder of their journey and Jesus is just sitting there by this well , he 's tired , he 's thirsty , weary and hungry , just waiting there and then this lady comes to draw water from the well . |
| 8 | It had been travelling from Libya with the last of five arms shipments for the IRA . |
| 9 | He had thus seldom been cooler or more controlled than now , as he told McGann that yes indeed he had been travelling , and no , it was none of the Society 's business where or about what pursuit . |
| 10 | He wrote to his sister , who he had n't seen for a year , as he had been travelling round Europe before joining the Legion . |
| 11 | He had been travelling and had seen some pretty strange things . |
| 12 | He had been travelling for eight years and was now heading south towards Delhi , the capital of the Sultan of Hindustan . |
| 13 | She had long since left the path and he had been travelling across rough land for some time — there was a high trail of dust behind the vehicle . |
| 14 | He could see , moreover , that the Galapagos were much younger than the continent around which he had been travelling . |
| 15 | My dinner companions were two Swiss nurses doing a world tour , and Roger Rasmussen , a pensioner front Queensland who said he had been travelling by train for 16 days non-stop . |