Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
2 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
3 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 . |