Example sentences of "[vb past] be [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 2 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 3 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 4 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
| 7 | There was strength and an inner confidence reflected in those steady grey eyes that she suddenly realised were subjecting her to a thorough appraisal . |
| 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 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 11 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 12 | While Cleo and Dauntless tried to arrange themselves comfortably upon the sacking — which smelled malodorous in the extreme , as if the dogs had been using it as a toilet Apanage busied herself with the ghost-bagging equipment . |
| 13 | The girls had been plotting it for a month in great excitement . |
| 14 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | And romance — although ideally , if she had been advising him as a florist , she would have suggested roses instead of the more exotic lilies and orchids he had chosen . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Short had been saving him for the Ascot race . |
| 19 | ‘ Speaking crossly and rudely although Carrie had only been stewing indoors because she had been helping him in the shop ! |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 22 | He had been watching her without a flicker of expression . |
| 23 | ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier ! |
| 24 | She had met her connection in the usual place but the moment the deal was struck they were busted by three plainclothes policemen who had been watching them from an unmarked car on the opposite side of the road . |
| 25 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 26 | The back of her throat rasped as if someone had been scraping it with a razor blade : she needed a drink . |
| 27 | She had been asking him about the little wooden cities which adorned the shelves in her room . |
| 28 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 29 | Later , on their way home , Katherine suddenly realized what it was that had been troubling her throughout the evening . |
| 30 | Was he the enemy who had been following us since the very beginning in London ? |