Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] they [vb past] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the judge called the jury back this afternoon they 'd been considering their verdict for one and a half days . |
| 2 | All this time they had been standing by the front door . |
| 3 | They had been crossing a scree ; there had been many loose stones , and footing was difficult , but surely at that point they had been traversing a gentler slope , and her employer had actually been standing on a flattish stretch of granite when she had fallen . |
| 4 | Later that evening they had been sitting in a restaurant and Maggie had looked at Tom and said , her delicate face and long neck almost visibly aquiver with pleasure , |
| 5 | In the first year of the new tour , Len Owen , then tournament director for the Benson and Hedges tournament at Wembley , revealed that they were expecting to have to pay $500,000 in appearance money , in addition to the same amount they had been offering in prize money when they were a protected event . |