Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 2 | I knew that I always overestimated the time these outings took , but I was certain that we 'd been going for over two hours , and still we were crashing on . |
| 3 | Maginnis had been listening to almost two hours of complaints about the police when a woman announced that she would clap her hands if she heard of an RUC constable 's death . |
| 4 | Most of the sample group ( 82 per cent ) had been using for over two years before they first sought treatment . |
| 5 | Sheila , who had been ringing for over 20 years , told me that her father and grandfather had both been ringers . |
| 6 | During the second half of the 1960s , GNP had been rising at about 3 per cent a year in Britain . |
| 7 | Buckby , who is also secretary of the Langbaurgh Schools Cross Country Association , said he had been trying for nearly ten years to have the rule changed . |
| 8 | Douglas Gray of Middleton in Teesdale said he had been complaining for over two years about undelivered letters and hit out at the ‘ uncaring attitude ’ of the Post Office in Darlington . |
| 9 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |
| 10 | The Darkfall storm had been building for quite some time , generating itself , growing stronger . |
| 11 | It had been raining for over three hours , and the hide Duncan lay in was filled with water . |
| 12 | Such factual situations had not been considered by Lord Templeman who had been dealing with only one occupant . |
| 13 | The microlight had been flying for nearly half an hour when it crashed into a field . |
| 14 | It was also stated that a ‘ scam ’ had been running for quite some time prior to the defendants ' involvement . |
| 15 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |
| 16 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 17 | He had been walking for almost four hours . |
| 18 | Carol Clark had been missing for almost 40 hours before her body was found at Sharpness . |
| 19 | Little did they know that French , together with hard-working ARFU executive Bob Fordham , had been working for over 12 hours attempting to salvage the Wallaby tour after pre-tour conditions , such as the non-playing of national anthems , were inexplicably ignored at Ellis Park the previous day when South Africa celebrated its return to international rugby against the All Blacks . |
| 20 | The manuscript on which Ernest Cotchin had been working for so many years was unfinished and unrevised when he died in September 1988 . |
| 21 | ‘ Parr , throughout the morning , had been dipping into similarly murky pools , had heard , in fact , the name of Michael Collins mentioned . |
| 22 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 23 | Oh it had been going for quite some time , I do n't know really when they would start . |
| 24 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 25 | Publicity officer Steve Thompson , said : ‘ Nicky had been fighting for over four years with an injury he did n't know about until six months ago . |
| 26 | In a copy of Burma Today for March 1945 , which has somehow survived in my papers , I see an editorial which I wrote under the heading ‘ Britain 's Best Ambassador ’ , namely the BOR ( British Other Ranks ) , who had been fighting for over three years to liberate Burma . |
| 27 | The Tories had been talking about just such a move in opposition . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Hassell , who joined the club only a few months before Tendulkar , added : ‘ When I arrived , membership had been falling for about seven years and we were ringing up companies to try to talk them into sponsorship . |
| 30 | Fleury had no time to draw his final weapon , the two-bladed Indian dagger , for his adversary , it turned out , was no less impressively armed than he was himself and he was already flourishing a spare sabre which he had been carrying for just such an emergency . |