Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [pron] had [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized he had been listening until he heard Catherine say she could not marry him . |
| 2 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 4 | Rob made me a cup of coffee and erm I forgot it had been standing there and er I went to take a mouthful course I got a mouth full of skin did n't I ? |
| 5 | I saw he had been drinking , and I knew I was in a very dangerous situation . |
| 6 | I thought , I thought someone had been smoking in the toilets . |
| 7 | I explained what had been going on . |
| 8 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 9 | She sat up and rubbed her eyes , colouring furiously as she realised she had been using Roman 's shoulder for a head-rest . |
| 10 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
| 11 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 12 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 13 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 14 | Six months before her overdose Liz terminated the relationship with her boyfriend of two years ' standing after she discovered he had been going out with another girl . |
| 15 | It was a decision that she knew she had been putting off for far too long . |
| 16 | He came forward into the firelight then and she saw he had been sitting beside the range , in an old rocking chair which he had left tilting back and forth , to take the lantern from her , grasping her free hand in his . |
| 17 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 18 | She wondered who had been reading so recently on the carefully made bed , or if this fat book , which she now saw to be a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories , were a relic of the past summer , and the maid , or whoever cleared the house , was devotedly keeping her employer 's place . |
| 19 | When they had left the cinema , they found it had been raining so Yanto decided the standing position would be favourite . |
| 20 | All that those LA police offices had to say to get acquitted of beating Rodney King was that they believed he had been using PCP . |
| 21 | they said they had been bringing in one of their nets , which had seemed very heavy . |
| 22 | Three people with incendiary devices were found in a car … they said they had been intending to commit a serious crime and they just walk out of court . |
| 23 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 24 | He ended up 200 miles off course and when the Salisbury beacon came in showing a 160 mile track error to the west , he realised he had been following a star ! |
| 25 | He argued he had been giving them a practical demonstration of his work as a ‘ psycho-sexual ’ counsellor and doctor . |
| 26 | He realized he had been babbling . |
| 27 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 28 | He found he had been speaking the memory out into the night and among the bleak cages around . |
| 29 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 30 | He killed 19-year-old Walter Smith because he believed he had been mistreating his childhood friend Sharon . |