Example sentences of "[subord] [pers pn] [vb past] [be] [v-ing] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 2 | How would you feel if you 'd been paying this money for ten years and then you lived , you lived after than , and you got nothing for it basically . |
| 3 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 4 | So after they 'd been using this stuff with no windows open or anything , one of the workmen began to feel a little bit groggy so he said to his mate and open the back door Charlie , will you , I 'm feeling a bit groggy . |
| 5 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |