Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [pron] had [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 2 | He hardly comprehended what had been happening ; the reality and unreality merged together like a nightmare or a melodrama . |
| 3 | ‘ Labour members saw the letter I had sent and automatically assumed I had been misusing the Commons franking machine . |
| 4 | Amiss suspected they had been hammering the port harder than ever the previous night . |
| 5 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |