Example sentences of "[noun prp] [coord] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE THIRD Test on the 1974–75 tour was at Sydney and everything had been going well . |
| 2 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 3 | Benjamin and I had been entertaining the group with a French madrigal , my deep bass a smooth foil to my master 's well-modulated tenor : a stupid little song about a maid who lost her wealth and her virtue in the great city . |
| 4 | Alec and I had been climbing on his right-hand side . |
| 5 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |