Example sentences of "[vb past] been raining " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( No , it 'd been raining . ) |
| 2 | It had been raining and the read was wet . |
| 3 | It had been raining steadily , but suddenly the rain became torrential in its fierceness . |
| 4 | It had been raining heavily since dawn , water sluicing the gutters of the courtyard , creating rainbows of the patches of oil on the tarmac of the consultants ' car park . |
| 5 | Earlier in the day it had been raining , now there was a high wind blowing . |
| 6 | It had been raining heavily — and it was to go on raining heavily for another nine days . |
| 7 | When they had left the cinema , they found it had been raining so Yanto decided the standing position would be favourite . |
| 8 | It had been raining all night and in the stillness of morning the clouds and mist had not yet cleared . |
| 9 | It had been raining for over three hours , and the hide Duncan lay in was filled with water . |
| 10 | It was raining when Patrick Montgomery Lundy , followed by Jane Bradley , stepped onto Irish soil , and he suddenly remembered his mother telling him that it had been raining on the day she had first come to Ireland , in the May of 1898 . |
| 11 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 12 | It had been raining . |
| 13 | For example , if the words prior to dogs/clogs had been raining cats and then it would be fairly safe to say that the intended word was dogs . |
| 14 | The weather was fine on the day , a lucky day as it had been raining all week . |
| 15 | But it had been raining and the surface of the yard had been washed clear of any traces . |
| 16 | It had been raining that night so the roads were slippy and our group was half way round the course when a friend , Catriona , suffered a puncture in her rear wheel . |
| 17 | But it 's no way , I mean it was a really wet morning at quarter to seven , it had been raining , and he was right behind a lorry , and he , he , the lorry went to go one way and the he did n't go back because he knew he was going one way and the guy was going the other , he just started to go round to go to the left and bike was just there , he had no way of seeing him or he . |