Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [v-ing] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 2 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 3 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 4 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 5 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
| 6 | Maybe it was she who 'd been deluding herself about the state of his and Sandra 's relationship , and not the other way around . |
| 7 | In fact , she did possess mettle , though going round alone in the jeep was — I believe — just feminine carelessness , like the terrible state she 'd leave her room in for her maid : powder everywhere , pink for face , white for body ; her long , strong , glossy hairs in the sink , so you would have thought the orang-utan had been availing himself of the facilities and not a pretty young woman of thirty-one . |
| 8 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 9 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 10 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 11 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 12 | By the time they had run the half-mile back to their barracks the tiger that had been stalking them in the penumbra had emerged from his cover . |
| 13 | His teaching after the resurrection , when " beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself " , was the climax of what he had been teaching them through the years of his ministry . |
| 14 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 15 | Constable Perkins , who had been enjoying himself at the fête , ‘ patrolling ’ the exhibits , had only by chance come into the Cookery Tent at the vital moment . |
| 16 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 17 | She explained that Lazaris came through to her via a medium who went into a trance , and had been helping her for the previous eight years . |
| 18 | ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier ! |
| 19 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 20 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 21 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 22 | Later , on their way home , Katherine suddenly realized what it was that had been troubling her throughout the evening . |
| 23 | Was he the enemy who had been following us since the very beginning in London ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Out of Surbiton , with an accent that veered between Sydney — which was where many people located him — and outer London , his initial work on the magazine had been selling it on the streets . |
| 26 | The answer had been staring him in the face . |
| 27 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 28 | Liz Ablewhite was offered , and graciously accepted , the Alethea Ward Scholarship in Natural Sciences ( an annual college award specifically designated by Dr Ward , 1853–1935 , for female students of medicine from the County of Yorkshire , her own home county ) , the goal towards which her mother had been directing her for the past ten years . |
| 29 | The first course had been awaiting them on the dining-room table . |
| 30 | Fourth , there was anxiety over the extent to which the Gulf states , whether formal belligerents or not , had been arming themselves with the most advanced weaponry available from a wide range of sources . |