Example sentences of "had been walking [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told Heatley that he had been walking along the footpath when the police had made a baton charge . |
| 2 | The victim had been walking along the Springfield Road with her four-year-old daughter when the accident happened on Wednesday . |
| 3 | Mr Norrie had been walking along Leith 's Great Junction Street on Friday evening when he saw two youths approaching him . |
| 4 | Mahoney had been walking down the street on his way to the Bonanza Club when he was shot down . |
| 5 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 7 | Benjamin , who had been walking for a month , found himself less welcome in his mother 's room and followed Ruth around the house like a pet lamb . |
| 8 | I had been walking for only a few minutes when I was surprised to see Miss Stapleton sitting on a rock ahead of me . |
| 9 | He had been walking for almost four hours . |
| 10 | They had been walking for less than ten minutes when it began to spit . |
| 11 | He had been walking on the riverbank observing a high tide . |
| 12 | Mr Fraser had been walking on the moors with his wife and daughter when he was taken ill at about 5.30pm on Sunday . |
| 13 | A man had been walking over the ground outside . |
| 14 | I had been walking towards a closed door , and by a sudden magic its impenetrable wood became glass , through which I saw myself coming from the other direction , the future . |
| 15 | He had told Mr Gibson they had been walking past the barn and had gone in for shelter . |
| 16 | The woods were extensive and the two men had been walking about the property for over an hour . |
| 17 | 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 . |