Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] to a [adj] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
2 | But in his heart he knew that he had been speaking to a troubled spirit , a spirit that had something terrible to confess . |
3 | Mrs O had been chatting to a close friend for over an hour . |
4 | The girl , who had been clinging to a third-floor window ledge , fell just as firemen were about to grab her . |
5 | He had been talking to a tall girl with white-blonde hair , but suddenly he turned his head slightly and looked straight at Maria , and every muscle in her body clenched in furious , shocked resistance . |