Example sentences of "[subord] [pron] had [be] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
| 2 | She crouched forward in the chair , her muscles stiff , as if she had been sitting in the cold for a long time . |
| 3 | You would not have reached your present stage if you had been lacking in ability . |
| 4 | The former concept had a crucial historical advantage at the birth of mechanics ; Western thinkers approaching things as materials which stay put until the craftsman or builder reaches for them , would not have started trying to measure how the inert is moved by external forces if they had been thinking in terms of inherently active ch'i . |
| 5 | The fans absolutely loved him and would throng the terraces to witness his extrovert pre-match warm-up sessions , in which he entertained and even amused the supporters before returning to the dressing-room as mud-stained and soiled as if he had been playing in a game . |
| 6 | He would have posed the same question if he had been sitting in her position . |
| 7 | At the same time , he knew that , while he had been living in Canada , she had been an activist for a period with the WLAA and had been outspoken on occasions such as the meeting of the deputation with Whitelaw and the television debates . |
| 8 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 9 | The man got into the lift with her after he had been waiting in the foyer . |
| 10 | He had told her about the cannabis bed a few days ago when they had been walking in the garden and her eyes had widened in shock . |
| 11 | " I 'm awake , " she told him when he had been standing in silence beside her for some seconds . |
| 12 | The high velvet shoulder of his doublet smelt musty as though it had been lying in a trunk for centuries . |
| 13 | He argued that Dorset should continue to record unmet need as it had been doing in a pilot project , although the decision is so politically sensitive that it has to be given clearance by the politicians at their June committee meeting . |