Example sentences of "[vb past] be [v-ing] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Before I burst through that door , I 'd been listening at the window — I distinctly recall that he was refusing to say anything really damning . |
| 2 | But of course , th , I 'd been living at The Haven then , next to the butcher 's shop . |
| 3 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |
| 4 | Lone travellers , they 'd been talking at the bar , and Lily had said how much she enjoyed dancing . |
| 5 | She could n't remember where she 'd been going at the time . |
| 6 | On Aug. 2 the UOF published in Paris an appeal to non-governmental organizations to send aid to some 200,000 civilians in the north and south-west of Djibouti , who it claimed were dying at the rate of 100 a day due to the effects of drought and a government blockade of areas of rebel activity . |
| 7 | In each case the sentence is true if the person who spoke was skipping at the time of the utterance . |
| 8 | Robert could not have said why , but he had the strong impression that the engineering master , too , had been listening at the door . |
| 9 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 10 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 11 | A woman who had been looking at the screen turned to him and said , " I saw one , round at my daughter 's . |
| 12 | She had been looking at the castle for the last hour . |
| 13 | ‘ I had been looking at the world ratings and the draw certainly is n't what I had expected , ’ said Gregg . |
| 14 | Herr Hamnett , who was but recently arrived in Vienna for the purpose of vacation , had been residing at the home of a friend , a certain Herr Sanders of Kagrant . |
| 15 | Tenants ' association club on the Sparrow Farm estate … it is alleged that people who had been drinking at the club attacked the family in the off-licence opposite PHOTOGRAPHS : KENNETH SAUNDERS Bitter questions of racial violence Ramesh K and his family were hounded out of their Feltham off-licence by 18 months of abuse and attacks , during which time they became pawns in a battle between the local council , the police and two rival race relations bodies . |
| 16 | of the people had been smoking at the meeting . |
| 17 | The hotel 's owner said nine Irishmen had been staying at the hotel since June , all of them apparently working as builders . |
| 18 | Isadore Johnson , 29 , from London , had been staying at the party house in Northampton . |
| 19 | That and the fact that she had managed to stir all those self-doubts that had been hovering at the back of her mind . |
| 20 | Dana felt so sick , he went straight back to bed , but had been there only a few seconds before he leapt out with a scream of agony : an autumnal , sleepy wasp had been brought in by the chambermaid among the bedclothes which had been airing at the window and had stung my friend on the bottom ! |
| 21 | As she slowly regained strength , Julia began to be able to think of things beyond her own physical state , and whenever David came to see her she urged him to tell her what had been happening at the trial . |
| 22 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 23 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |
| 24 | It reminded Jane of one of the Professor Branestawm stories she had read as a child in which the characters were photographs come alive , each repeating , over and over again , the sentence he or she had been saying at the moment the photograph was taken . |
| 25 | He had been working at the Council depot as an attendant when Joe offered him the job , and he had been very pleased to make the change . |
| 26 | Tonight she 'd try to find out which , if any , of the other employees had been working at the club when Christine had been there . |
| 27 | She guessed that he had been standing at the window or listening for the sound of her key in the lock . |
| 28 | For the past hour we had been standing at the top of a Norfolk heath in swirling snow . |
| 29 | The Doctor had been staring at the ceiling for a very long time . |
| 30 | ‘ If we had been sitting at the bottom I could accept my fate , but we are seventh and have lost only one of the last eight games . ’ |