Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had had only one more year to serve before he could have retired into civilian life , and both he and Isobel had been looking forward to this . |
| 2 | Some of the girls had been looking forward to this as to the highlight of the trip , but Clara had been dreading it , and for a classic reason , which was that she had nothing nice to wear . |
| 3 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 4 | After behaving with notable restraint during the election , she had been building up to this . |
| 5 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 6 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 7 | He was a small boy of six who lived just around the corner from her , and for days he had been going on about this great talking parrot his father had given him . |