Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 2 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 3 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 4 | They wanted their own announcer , a local girl , not one from London , and as I 'd been presenting it on radio since I was 13 , they asked me to try my hand on television . |
| 5 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |
| 6 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 7 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 8 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 9 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 10 | I had been singing it at Bayreuth so they came to me . ’ |
| 11 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 12 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |
| 13 | You 'd been planning it for about |
| 14 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 15 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
| 16 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 17 | She 'd been avoiding it for so long , but she had no choice about facing it now . |
| 18 | She glanced at the automatic camera attached to her wrist ; all this time she had been clutching it without giving it a thought . |
| 19 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 20 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 21 | And romance — although ideally , if she had been advising him as a florist , she would have suggested roses instead of the more exotic lilies and orchids he had chosen . |
| 22 | Claudia wanted to laugh out loud — that was what she had been telling him for days , but under the joy she was aware of fear making itself known . |
| 23 | She had been practising it on him for years . |
| 24 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 25 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 26 | She had been planning it for months now , and it was vitally important . |
| 27 | All their eyes were turned on Rose but she , with just a glance at Moran , took up the Second Mystery as if she had been saying it with them all the nights of their lives . |
| 28 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 29 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 30 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |