Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had certainly found the rural setting I had been hankering after . |
| 2 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |
| 3 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 4 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 5 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 6 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 7 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 8 | The sun I had been dreaming of was dark , and the real sun was nothing : nothing but what it was . |
| 9 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 10 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 11 | I said I could see Victor was right , I had over-complicated the plot ; I should not have introduced the letters , which were paraphrases of a correspondence I 'd been reading on my journey to London . |
| 12 | Bernice quickly unrolled the bundle she 'd been carrying beneath her arm and thrust Ace 's blood-soaked jacket into the Doctor 's hands . |
| 13 | Dreams of Comfort and Anthony and David mixed with memories of the war and became tangled up with the figures on the painted ceiling above her bed and the work she had been doing for Kesselring 's trial . |
| 14 | Rain said : ‘ If Sabine Jourdain planned to reveal how much of Durance 's work she 'd been doing for him , a lot of people would have preferred she did n't . ’ |
| 15 | It would be so easy to give up the battle she 'd been waging against him , simply to lay down her arms and give herself up to the ecstasy of possession . |
| 16 | All over Spain , rebel officers put into action the plan they had been elaborating since December of the previous year . |
| 17 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 18 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
| 19 | Truth had had to go by the board in the work he had been doing during the war and there seemed no point in insisting on using it again . |
| 20 | Abruptly , Ratagan threw the chunk of bread he had been gnawing into the fire . |
| 21 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 22 | But what was wrong with the metal wood he had been employing off the tee ? |
| 23 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 24 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 25 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 26 | Ella silenced her arguments in one fell swoop by producing the money she had been saving from her grant all the months Eva had been at university . |
| 27 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |
| 28 | Picking up the internal telephone , she buzzed Stephanie , abruptly coming to a decision she 'd been wrestling with for a couple of days , one she considered to be eminently sensible and practical … |
| 29 | The moment I 'd been waiting for so long had arrived . |
| 30 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |