Example sentences of "that [pers pn] [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I knew it was but it the fact that it had a nice easy switch in the base was something that I 'd been looking for . |
| 2 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 3 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 4 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 5 | Mind you in between that I 'd been working on the fa farm farm . |
| 6 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |
| 7 | He was overlooking the fact that I had been living with Jean-Claude for more than three years . |
| 8 | However , whilst searching through various books in my library , I chanced upon my copy of Folklore , Myths and Legends of Britain and wondered if there were anything mentioned about the Silbury Hill area that I had been writing about . |
| 9 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 10 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 11 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 12 | As Lou 's story progressed , however , it emerged that she had been living with Rick for several months and had high hopes of becoming engaged to him herself . |
| 13 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 14 | He was inclined to believe her : her anger was a natural reaction to his accusation that she had been prying into data which was not her concern . |
| 15 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
| 16 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 17 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 18 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 19 | She tried to recall when she had last passed a house , an AA box , a public telephone , but it seemed to her that she had been driving through deserted countryside for at least ten minutes . |
| 20 | Her boast was that she had been dancing at every RAF and American air force station within a 30-mile radius , and that she would n't look at any male with a rank lower than Squadron Leader or the American equivalent . |
| 21 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |
| 22 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 23 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 24 | But now , when her mind travelled back , it was clear from the young man 's behaviour and some of the comments he had made that she had been suffering from myopia . |
| 25 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
| 26 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 27 | Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to . |
| 28 | It was her nail scissors that she 'd been searching for days , lost under the hearthrug and pressing into her hip ; and the cry was also her virginity , small and bewildered and gone . |
| 29 | She was in fact very thin but had this huge wire frame around her ’ It turned out that she 'd been coming in a couple of times a week , stealing hundreds of pounds worth of clothes , hanging them on her frame then walking out . |
| 30 | The summer school job that she 'd been relying on had been cancelled at the very last minute and other temporary jobs were a bit thin on the ground . |