Example sentences of "[subord] we had [adv] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is only when one has haunted the markets of France and the food shops in the country towns and villages , watched the housewives doing their shopping , listened to them discussing their purchases at the pâtisseries and the charcuteries that one realizes how much less they are tied to their kitchens than we had always been led to suppose . |
| 2 | If we had simply been moving to another site we would just roll everything up and take it with us . |
| 3 | I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything . |
| 4 | For we had all been fooled , even the Lebanese themselves . |
| 5 | Whichever is correct , we know that Magellan named the final cape Deseado , ‘ for we had long been desiring it ’ . |