Example sentences of "have been walking [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been walking home after celebrating starting a new job after nine months on the dole when he was set upon . |
| 2 | They had been walking slowly ; now he stopped and pulled Robyn around so that she was standing in front of him . |
| 3 | She had been walking slowly back to the terrace doors with him jogging at her elbow . |
| 4 | Two figures who had been walking ahead of them , suddenly turned and came sauntering back . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | He had been walking away alone after the meeting . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Time flows strangely and travellers become lost for years although they think they have been walking only hours . |