Example sentences of "[pron] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages . |
| 2 | The one to whom I had been speaking was shivering audibly . |
| 3 | ‘ You mean , someone who had been having a lesbian affair with Eddie ? |
| 4 | ‘ You said someone who had been travelling through snow stood at the back of the church . ’ |
| 5 | I felt that perhaps here , at last , was the way into the treatment of genetic disorders for which I had been searching . |
| 6 | When I was eighteen I came in contact with the Catholic Crusade which was a rather left wing Christian Socialist Organization and I found that their attitude to problems contained the answers for which I had been searching for a good many years tell me when you want me to raise something . |
| 7 | Thus flighted , I sent them shooting out over the mud and the water towards their suffocating ends ; then I buried them , using as coffins the big matchboxes we always kept by the stove , and which I had been saving for years and using as toy-soldier containers , model houses and so on . |
| 8 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 9 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 10 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 11 | As I had already been rock-climbing I decided it was time to take part in the activity which I had been looking forward to , canoeing ! |
| 12 | We had agreed at the start of this thing that pressing the Harwich local council for housing would probably be more trouble than it was worth : if one of their inspectors had decided to check my circumstances with the port authorities , the customs people would inevitably have found out about the way in which I had been using their cupboard ( and would have had a pink fit , probably ) . |
| 13 | The canyon ran parallel to the continuation of the wadi which I had been following for days . |
| 14 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
| 15 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 16 | Additionally , there may be a number of general domestic or luxury items which you had been promising yourself for some time and the only question is one of actual timing , i.e. determining the right moment to buy . |
| 17 | I was interested in the thing in B A I E news which you had been talking about getting grants for people to do it |
| 18 | The violent metaphors which formerly had been freely used were absent , and the letter contained a suggestion that it was Anselm himself who had been going too far : |
| 19 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 20 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 21 | ‘ The hills of Sintra mean that even in the height of summer the town has a freshness , which is why the rich people used to build their country houses here to escape the heat of Lisbon , ’ Ashley said , resolutely switching her thoughts away from her host and to a guide book which she had been reading . |
| 22 | On the day after Christmas she received the letter from him which she had been expecting . |
| 23 | In a moment he had gripped her hand in his and was pulling her away from the bale on which she had been resting . |
| 24 | She allowed her steady gaze to flicker from the glass which she had been holding firm . |
| 25 | ‘ You 've done quite well , ’ Arlene conceded , keeping to herself the growing excitement with which she had been watching Paula over the past weeks . |
| 26 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 27 | Of which she had been doing as Liz left the car . |
| 28 | It was one which she had been longing to ask him ever since the night on which he had come home so late , just before she had turned off all the gas-lamps . |
| 29 | She resolutely pushed away the memory of Dr Neil and the life which she had been going to share with him . |
| 30 | Anna picked up the saucepan into which she had been putting potatoes and transferred it to the stove . |