Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I had been singing it at Bayreuth so they came to me . ’ |
| 5 | I must have known that those were the very advantages I had been denying myself in denying myself food . |
| 6 | You see , I had been doing something about my own future , too . |
| 7 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 8 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |
| 9 | I had been preparing myself for as long as I can remember , preparing myself ( though I did not always realize it ) from the day that I was born , preparing myself , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , but always aware of the dangers of beginning too soon . |
| 10 | I had been polishing it for what seemed hours and you could now see your face in it perfectly . |
| 11 | Cecilia would have been very surprised indeed if she had been wearing anything but jeans and a sweater or T-shirt , and she was not . |
| 12 | She glanced at the automatic camera attached to her wrist ; all this time she had been clutching it without giving it a thought . |
| 13 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 14 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Although she had been expecting something like this , Robbie 's mouth was suddenly dry , her tongue cleaving to the roof of her mouth . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She had been practising it on him for years . |
| 19 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 20 | Lindsey knew she had been fooling herself in thinking she could remain indifferent . |
| 21 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 22 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 23 | She had been planning it for months now , and it was vitally important . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Additionally , there may be a number of general domestic or luxury items which you had been promising yourself for some time and the only question is one of actual timing , i.e. determining the right moment to buy . |
| 26 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 27 | The forecast from Livorno has spoken of increasing winds and I laid out all the chain before we rowed ashore ( feeling curiously British and eccentric using oars among so many outboards ) for the pasta and wine we had been promising ourselves since mid-morning . |
| 28 | While we had been lording it in the Solent , Alert had been making a name for herself in Shetland as a stand in for Venturous . |
| 29 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 30 | Latterly they had been feeding him by dropping his fodder from a loft above the stall , and lowering down pails of water on a string . |