Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 2 | What he had not bargained for was the fact that these two Gardai had been listening to well-articulated feminist rhetoric all afternoon and were still reeling from the effects . |
| 3 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 4 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 5 | Throughout 1838 , Darwin had been allowing for Lyellian competitive defeats to extinguish some species before their predetermined ageing overcame them . |
| 6 | It was wild and erratic , as though she had been writing under severe emotional strain . |
| 7 | An article in the Timber Trades Journal reported Michael Latham , chairman of a major UK timber firm and then president of the European tropical timber importers union , as saying that : ‘ The entry of the WWF into the field enlarged the scale of the problem for the timber trade , since before that time the trade had been dealing with small local conservationist groups ’ . |
| 8 | Direct Line Insurance is Britain 's largest direct insurer and had been running at 100,000 new policies or thereabouts for three years . |
| 9 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |
| 10 | ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons . |
| 11 | Henderson had been working for British secret services for 20 years , it was revealed last night . |
| 12 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 13 | A brain scan showed extensive bleeding around the brain , and the specialists concluded that Guy had been suffering from internal bleeding since his accident on the previous day . |
| 14 | An autopsy revealed that the pilot had been suffering from severe coronary artery disease . |
| 15 | He dragged the 18-year-old girl to a nearby common and forced her into humiliating sex acts for more than an hour while the three-month-old baby she had been caring for lay alone in the house . |
| 16 | Mary had been playing with some other children in the stable yard and had suddenly fainted . |