Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 2 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 3 | We 'd been bickering since New Year and she 'd flounced out of my city flat in early May , darkly muttering , Nevermore ! |
| 4 | He was n't wearing the suit he 'd been wearing in Furnival Gardens . |
| 5 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 6 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 7 | Mr Probyn is being questioned about the death of his wife , Tanya , who was 28 , and who 'd been missing for six days before her body was found in her car in the River Severn . |
| 8 | She 'd been missing for 24 hours , her disappearance reported by her boyfriend , himself arrested and questioned by police , but then released . |
| 9 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 10 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 11 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 12 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 13 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 14 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 15 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 16 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 17 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 18 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 19 | Five minutes later he came in trying to tell tell us jokes and each time he 'd been paddling through this brake fluid and the carpet is just you know , brains |
| 20 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 21 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 22 | This change was marked by the arrival on 1 June of Air Commodore Hugh Pughe Lloyd , M.C. , D.F.C. , to take over as A.O.C. from A.V.M. Maynard , A.F.C. Newly-promoted from the rank of Group Captain , Lloyd had been serving as Senior Air Staff Officer with No.2 Group of Bomber Command . |
| 23 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 24 | Eventually an old gentleman who had been listening with much amusement to their discussion said that what mattered was not whether the earthworm has an immortal soul but whether it has a purpose . |
| 25 | Alexei had been listening for other footsteps coming along the bridge . |
| 26 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 27 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 28 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 29 | Indeed , I recall being present at a formal state banquet in Malawi when the Life President , His Excellency the very elderly Dr Hastings Banda , had been speaking for 45 minutes proposing the toast and had still only reached 1947 . |
| 30 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |