Example sentences of "what [pron] had been [v-ing] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I feel badly let down by Penguin because this was more or less what I had been trying to persuade them all along would happen . |
| 2 | Eventually , I found out about the Dog Welfare and Rescue Society in Stokenchurch and spoke to the kennel manager who said just what I had been longing to hear . |
| 3 | Lindsey sank back into her seat , trying to digest the thought that that was precisely what she had been trying to do from the minute she had met him , and it had n't got her very far . |
| 4 | That was what she had been going to say . |
| 5 | Entire and accessible to the front of his mind was what he had been trying to recall his wife had said about the picture , but it was n't about the picture . |
| 6 | But his head cleared as the pain receded and he remembered what he had been going to ask Curtis . |
| 7 | ‘ If you think — ’ Coleby thought better of what he had been going to say . |