Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [been] [v-ing] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 2 | She had been moving in large ellipses , crossing and recrossing her path in a complicated pattern . |
| 3 | A frisson of disbelief and unease passed though the male patrons as the woman they had been watching in simulated copulation on the screen materialised in the flesh before their very eyes . |
| 4 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 5 | They had been talking in low voices . |
| 6 | They had been paddling in tension-filled silence for some time when he spoke . |
| 7 | The blinding headaches he had been experiencing in recent weeks were taking their toll , and he looked grey and drawn when he arrived home . |
| 8 | All performed creditably and indeed Patel was such a revelation that onlookers must have wondered why he had been languishing in other teams for so much of the season . |
| 9 | He had been running in international events since the Olympics of 1932 . ’ |