Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like everyone else , I 'd come to Hawaii for the waves , but some clandestine part of me had been plotting all along to make love on the beach beneath a palm tree . |
| 2 | At last she could admit honestly to herself that some part of her had been waiting all evening for this moment when her own self-imposed barriers would be swept away . |
| 3 | people died by their own hand here in 1992 , the majority of whom had been suffering from depression . |
| 4 | She must be losing her marbles , because she 'd absolutely no recollection of what had been happening during the past few minutes … ! |
| 5 | But it still left the question of who had been ringing her . |
| 6 | While he had been talking like an estate agent , getting his full value out of the situation , the full embarrassment of it had been dawning on Jenna . |
| 7 | The restructuring approach tended to focus more on detailed investigation of what had been happening in a small number of cases , in a particular industry perhaps . |
| 8 | Defence counsel said the girls ' mother had no knowledge of what had been happening . |
| 9 | For the last few weeks the baby inside her had been making itself felt . |
| 10 | And they were probably unaware of the scale of what had been happening , not just in their own field of Public Libraries , which was bad enough , but across the whole spectrum of British Public Institutional Libraries . |
| 11 | While the ramparts had been melting , the jungle beyond them had been growing steadily thicker . |
| 12 | What was happening clearly had no connection with what had been happening before or would , presumably , happen afterwards . |
| 13 | Over the past three weeks her perspective on everything had been shifting , and that included her fiancé . |