Example sentences of "be walking " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been walking a great deal , he wrote . |
| 2 | I had never been walking with flags before . |
| 3 | Hatton had been walking along in the dark and someone had waited for him among the willows and the brambles , the stone ready for use . |
| 4 | I reckon I should nearly be home by now — I been walking for ages . |
| 5 | I reckon I been walking for hours now . |
| 6 | And proud too , cos blimey , I been walking for ages and when I get back home she 'll think I been real clever to find my own way back , and I ai n't got a yellow card or nothing . |
| 7 | When they landed there was no choice but to start the ten-mile journey to Achnacarry Castle on foot , so they set off , even though they had been walking all day . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've been walking , ’ said Masha , rather red in the cheeks . |
| 9 | Having ensured that a sterile first half ended goalless by making a tremendous reaction save to thwart Olney , Grobbelaar , who has been walking a selection tightrope all season , then allowed a far from ferocious low shot by Daley at the end of a thrilling 50-yard burst to slip under him and into the net . |
| 10 | A colleague working in the laboratory to which Dr Sasaki had been walking was dead ; Dr Sasaki 's patient whom he had just left was also dead . |
| 11 | As the guns were still being fired , a Syrian tank came lunging up the shattered street where we had just been walking and entered the tiny square . |
| 12 | He told Heatley that he had been walking along the footpath when the police had made a baton charge . |
| 13 | How many times have you been walking with someone who does that all the time , regardless of climatic considerations , and wanted to deliver a rabbit punch to the back of their neck when they stop for the tenth time that day and begin the ponderous unclipping of their rucksack ? |
| 14 | I had been walking him around the roads for a couple of weeks and could n't wait to have him fit again . |
| 15 | Now , after I had been walking for only seventeen days , I had almost forgotten those words . |
| 16 | I must have been walking for nearly an hour , he thought . |
| 17 | He could have been walking on another planet The flat , moonlight illuminated landscape , interrupted by large and small pools of bright water seemed unreal . |
| 18 | He had been walking on the riverbank observing a high tide . |
| 19 | Anyone who has been walking across grassland and has nearly trodden on a hare , will know what a shock it is when the animal suddenly leaps up and darts off . |
| 20 | Have you ever been walking or driving towards a destination and completely missed your turning because your mind was somewhere else ? |
| 21 | Two figures who had been walking ahead of them , suddenly turned and came sauntering back . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |
| 23 | I knew there were other bags of cubes in the kitchen refrigerator , so , feeling that I had been walking the train for a lifetime , I went along through the dining room to fetch some . |
| 24 | Although previously I had been walking only on weekends , I was now walking up to five times a week for half an hour at a time . |
| 25 | After you have been walking for about ten minutes take your pulse . |
| 26 | Over the past week you have been walking away a minimum of 300 calories a day during your walk , and your increased metabolic rate will have been burning up another few hundred calories when you have finished walking . |
| 27 | Wait until your baby has been walking for a few weeks before taking her for the first shoe fitting , as toes are crucial in gripping the floor while learning to toddle . |
| 28 | Benjamin , who had been walking for a month , found himself less welcome in his mother 's room and followed Ruth around the house like a pet lamb . |
| 29 | She has been walking for an hour a day for more than a year , but very slowly . |
| 30 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |