Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been mucking around and none of my mates like that . |
| 2 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
| 3 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 4 | Caswell had n't only been doing some thinking , he 'd been looking up maps and timetables . |
| 5 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 6 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 7 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 8 | You 're right , are n't you Yes , once he got going , I knew why I 'd been holding back . |
| 9 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 10 | I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well but as Father 's Day approached , Joe made it clear that I could n't hope to be any more than just second best |
| 11 | ‘ And I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well together . ’ |
| 12 | I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars . |
| 13 | For a moment I felt better , then my face chanced to come alongside the face of a three-foot-high king in a crown — I 'd been pushing down hard on the bishop 's corpse memory , now he reared up again … |
| 14 | I 'd been jumping up and down like an eejit for a couple of minutes before the bloke next to me tapped me politely on the shoulder to point out the linesman and his flag . |
| 15 | The scenery they 'd been flashing through was spectacular , endless coconut and banana palms , glimpses of white sand and water , fluttering green against deep blue and silver . |
| 16 | He he had us all lined up after we 'd been riding round and he started enquiring how long we 'd been out of hospital . |
| 17 | There was one occasion when the addled eggs came in handy for pelting a kid on a motorbike who 'd been riding up and down outside our house all evening and making a terrible noise . |
| 18 | He 'd begun to tell her an anecdote about the time he 'd been trying out some play in Brighton when he 'd very nearly missed the curtain because he 'd accidentally locked himself in his hotel-room , and how if it had n't been for his wife — ; realising his blunder he broke off and wanted to know if she minded his being married . |
| 19 | Edouard said he 'd been obliged to keep an elderly English woman there for a few days , but she 'd been slipping out . ’ |
| 20 | He 'd been pottering around in the big old half-ruined sheds on the other side of the quarry , one day back in the summer . |
| 21 | It was gone in an instant as at last he looked up at her and pushed aside the papers he 'd been leafing through . |
| 22 | If you 'd been facing back there you 'd be swearing that was east . |
| 23 | ‘ Everyone would think I 'd been messing around ! |
| 24 | For them the time must have flown by , but for me it seemed as if I 'd been standing out there all morning ! |
| 25 | I was afraid they 'd been carrying on . ’ |
| 26 | She 'd been carrying on outside all morning and |
| 27 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 28 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 29 | I 'd been banging up dikes for a couple of years when smack came on the scene and I just sort of carried on as I had been doing , y'know , with the smack instead of the dike . |
| 30 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |