Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A stranger had been chatting with Mrs O for some time . |
| 2 | Jim feels ‘ as if a demon had been whispering in his ear ’ and goes to his death with the whisper still sounding , killed by the people he had tried , in one final , tragic mistake , to save for the future . |
| 3 | If a seller had been ringing for fifteen or twenty minutes before the phone was even answered , he would naturally resent this ultimate insult . |
| 4 | Arguably the only practical advantage in embalming was that it could reveal whether or not a person had been suffering from catalepsy . |
| 5 | A friend had been looking after them . |
| 6 | A woman had been talking to him , but she had gone away . |
| 7 | Palestinian and Jordanian pressure for a summit had been mounting since April , and in early May Iraq announced that it would host the meeting . |
| 8 | A man had been walking over the ground outside . |
| 9 | Ethel shook her head in puzzlement , but a gleam had been coming into Eames 's eyes . |
| 10 | The German girl killed by a lion had been sleeping in a tent like ours . |