Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun sg] [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I will store the incident with the others ; this one feels like the straw my back had been waiting for . |
| 2 | So it was obvious that my father had been thinking of this long before . |
| 3 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 4 | Cos me and my brother had been working on wagon again . |
| 5 | Donna saw the exhibit her sister had been looking at and crossed to it . |
| 6 | His wife Ann-Marie Turnpenny , of Sheerwater Avenue , Darlington , said their marriage had been going through a difficult period . |
| 7 | Her husband had been serving in the British Merchant Navy on the Russian Convoy run but after 1943 he was receiving psychiatric treatment in Shropshire somewhere for his nerves . |
| 8 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 9 | Their relationship had been coming to an end and Miss Turner 's parents had arranged for her to go on a holiday to America to deter her from seeing him . |
| 10 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
| 11 | Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word . |
| 12 | Her daughter had been sleeping with boys , and men since she was fourteen . |
| 13 | Meanwhile their investigation had received help from Roxie Farmer 's reluctant admission that her brother had been staying with her , and that he had gone off one day , borrowing her former husband 's bike , and had come back with blood on him . |
| 14 | Leith mentally shook herself to join in the conversation , realising that her mother had been speaking of the wonderful opportunities there were for world-wide travelling these days . |
| 15 | Night after sleepless night , her mother had been thinking about her , while Carolyn slept deep black sleeps and tried to keep her head empty . |
| 16 | During this time , Liz had taken much of the responsibility for the day-to-day running of the business , while her mother had been staying at home to look after her husband who was in poor health . |
| 17 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |
| 18 | Lady Bell said her son had been returning to his Land Rover , parked on the opposite side of the road to the farm . |
| 19 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 20 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 21 | Due to the fact that his marriage had been heading for the rocks ? |
| 22 | Beeson , the England captain , scored his first victory over the world No. 9 , Zarak Jahan Khan , with one of the finest performances of his career , and then complained about the remarks he claimed his opponent had been making during the rallies . |
| 23 | In mitigation Duncan Smith said Stevenson and his friend had been drinking in a pub and decided to take a car to get back home . |
| 24 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 25 | His bait had been lying in three inches of water ! |
| 26 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 27 | The conference of 1923 was the culmination of long planning on the part of Lord Darlington ; indeed , in retrospect , one can see clearly how his lordship had been moving towards this point from some three years or so before . |
| 28 | His thought had been moving towards an idea of nature , not unlike that found in some Stoic philosophers , as a complex of processes subject to their own natural law . |
| 29 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 30 | Damn him if she would explain that the young man to whom he 'd referred had merely been a fellow Briton attending a conference on international computing , that they 'd exchanged nothing more than a few polite comments natural to fellow compatriots abroad , and that his arm had been lying across the back of the bench seats and not round her shoulders . |