Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [been] [v-ing] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 3 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 4 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 5 | Presumably , after carrying out their assignments , they had been returning at irregular intervals and were now preparing their reports for the final session of the afternoon . |
| 6 | It had been thrilling at first to start work for a real knight and his lady and to live in this tall mansion with its halls and parlours , its tapestries and suits of armour . |
| 7 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 8 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 9 | Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover . |