Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been funny , telling stories against himself of fiascos he had survived in the theatre , and he 'd been flattering in a subtle way . |
| 2 | So far , he 'd been driving in a one-car team and in that situation , there is no way of knowing who is quick . |
| 3 | This time there was no mistaking the command , but , short of trying out one of the manoeuvres she had been learning in a regular martial arts class , there was n't much she could do about it . |
| 4 | Vesa had been living in a small apartment in the Mids since their aunt had died a year back . |
| 5 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
| 6 | The restructuring approach tended to focus more on detailed investigation of what had been happening in a small number of cases , in a particular industry perhaps . |
| 7 | In the bright mid-morning light he looked , standing there , rather commonplace and even ugly — so thought Alice , who a few moments before had been melting in a familiar ecstasy of admiration for him . |
| 8 | Long before Sartre developed his own form of Marxist-Hegelian history , Bachelard had been working in a critical relation to Hegelian historicism . |
| 9 | He had been milling in a modest way at Grove Mill near Painswick , but presumably saw where the future lay . |
| 10 | Two rather hysterical women had been talking in a suburban living-room , the one brunette and hawk-nosed , desperate for approval of a new pair of shoes , the other auburn and bright-eyed , and equally desperate about an undeclared affair her absent husband was having . |
| 11 | Comdisco had been playing in a high stakes financial game known as risk arbitrage , hoping to get ahead of the rapid run-up in a company 's share price when it became the object of a takeover ( or the reversal of fortune that occurred when a takeover fell apart ) . |