Example sentences of "[pron] had been standing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |
| 2 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 3 | It was decided in 1985 that the maypole , which had been standing since 1953 , was no longer safe and should be replaced . |
| 4 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 5 | She had been standing on the pavement , holding some silly banner — ‘ EDUCATION CUTS ARE NOT COMIC ’ , or something like that — talking and laughing excitedly with a big-bosomed woman stuffed into a scarlet ski-suit and pink moon boots , and he remembered thinking to himself : so it 's finally happened — designer industrial action . |
| 6 | She had been standing on her own , holding a teacup in front of her , not looking about her , but rather fixedly out of the window , as though she expected no one to approach and invited no one . |
| 7 | She had been standing on the bank above him with her booted feet apart , her hands jammed into the pockets of her tight-fitting breeches , and for a fleeting instant he looked at her appraisingly as he had done at the reception . |
| 8 | Nurse Motley said that except for a moment when she picked up a piece of paper and threw it in the bin , she had been standing by Kayley 's head the whole time . |
| 9 | Immediately , the cameramen who had been standing at the sides of the rows of chairs moved , and the flash of lights and the clicks of their equipment bewildered him slightly . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , the school 's RFFS ( rescue and fire-fighting service ) person who had been standing outside the school ran 150 metres to the RFFS vehicle parked by the control room . |
| 11 | Guy 's Hospital confirmed last night that the dead girl was Daniella Carter , who had been standing near the blast . |
| 12 | Jack , who had been standing near his friend holding the torn halves of the sketch in either hand , went to the far end of the room and sat on the desk . |
| 13 | Joshua Morris , who had been standing near the door , slipped out into the foyer . |
| 14 | Boldwood , who had been standing in a corner watching her , ran forward to catch her . |
| 15 | Knowing that it could only be bad news , Harry , who had been standing in the doorway , stepped forward and put his arm round Cora-Beth 's shoulders . |
| 16 | Laidlaw waited until the prostitute was out of sight then nodded to Graham who had been standing by the tree . |
| 17 | For the past hour we had been standing at the top of a Norfolk heath in swirling snow . |
| 18 | All this time they had been standing by the front door . |
| 19 | She guessed that he had been standing at the window or listening for the sound of her key in the lock . |
| 20 | Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover . |
| 21 | He had been standing in the kitchen for a long time . |
| 22 | " I 'm awake , " she told him when he had been standing in silence beside her for some seconds . |
| 23 | He had been standing by the door which was now partly open . |
| 24 | He answered immediately , as if he had been standing by the instrument . |