Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [be] [v-ing] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd all been listening to things like reggae and Spanish music , and when we got together to rehearse , we 'd be playing all kinds of crazy stuff before we settled down to get serious . ’ |
| 2 | She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected . |
| 3 | When the subject of education was brought up and it was pointed out that the girl had not been going to school he said that she was not learning anything at school anyway , that she was much safer here than at the school she had been to , where she had been threatened with knives in the playground and that she could learn all a wife needed to know better at home . |
| 4 | Capitalism had always been baffling to Ceauşescu , now his involvement with it was a curse . |
| 5 | Maeve agreed that the old nun had probably been referring to Lady Eleanor 's hands . |
| 6 | It was n't that she had n't been talking to Mandy , it was just that she had let her displeasure over that application be felt for an entire week now . |