Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] [verb] been standing " in BNC.
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| 1 | One afternoon I completed another unsuccessful attempt at a cannon : I had no sooner moved away than the pipe crashed down exactly where I had been standing . |
| 2 | The lorry 's battery landed where they had been standing . |
| 3 | Where he had been standing had been a turning point for cars once upon a time — when there were still cars in the world — but this had never been a place for modern things . |
| 4 | But although she had been standing there just a moment before , there was no sign of Izzie . |
| 5 | She guessed that he had been standing at the window or listening for the sound of her key in the lock . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For them the time must have flown by , but for me it seemed as if I 'd been standing out there all morning ! |
| 8 | If I 'd been standing , I 'd have shuffled my feet . |
| 9 | If I 'd been standing here fifteen years ago I 'd have been run over by now because there were four lanes of traffic running around here . |
| 10 | If I had been standing I could have put it in my personal manifesto that I was a sabbatarian but when the Party committed itself to that , it was placing itself in the position of a church . ’ |
| 11 | At least I could have moved if I had been standing . |
| 12 | At once it opened , as if she had been standing there waiting for the summons . |
| 13 | And then a sound , as if she had been standing next to a huge thunderclap . |
| 14 | if it 's been standing on the floor though , only the top leaves would , I do n't know what to do about having it there though , that 's right above the radiator , it 'll dry it out that 's , that 's why I said |
| 15 | What had happened in Amsterdam at the Strickers ' had stunned him — as if he had been standing too long ‘ against a church wall ’ . |
| 16 | He answered immediately , as if he had been standing by the instrument . |
| 17 | She was sore and uncomfortable , perhaps because she had been standing for so long and walking so much . |
| 18 | I WOULD like to say how much I have enjoyed listening to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock , right , while he has been standing in for Jimmy Young on Radio 2 . |
| 19 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 20 | " I 'm awake , " she told him when he had been standing in silence beside her for some seconds . |
| 21 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |