Example sentences of "[pron] had [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was relieved for myself , as I had been dreading driving again so soon . |
| 2 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 3 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 4 | I had been expecting this , for David Thomson had written of Woodbrook 's fall from splendour once the Maxwell family had succeeded in buying house and grounds from the former landlords , the Kirkwoods . |
| 5 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 6 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 7 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
| 8 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 9 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 10 | I had been washing all his hand . |
| 11 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 12 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 13 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 14 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 15 | Even before that , I had been recording some of the memories of the older generation of Bishop 's Castle residents , realising how many of them really did ‘ well remember ’ the early part of this century ; much of this material has been used in the ‘ RECALL ’ project at Stone House , whose members have contributed greatly to my understanding of that period . |
| 16 | I was so relieved to hear this as I had been canoeing many times before and so could remain warm and dry while watching many of the younger cadets freeze to death . |
| 17 | I had been repelling all visitors with even the slightest suggestion of a cold but had no power over the internal workings of his cancer . |
| 18 | Back in 1959 , I had been sitting one day in a Brighton coffee bar aptly named the Thieves ' Kitchen . |
| 19 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 20 | Certainly nobody had been taking any notice of this one — but then , had n't he been playing very badly , anyway ? |
| 21 | This focus on reconstruction put the CFLN in step with the resistance movements and the CNR , which had been discussing postwar renewal with increasing urgency ever since the American landings in North Africa . |
| 22 | It is understood that the deal had been held up by the Bank of England which had been seeking some form of ‘ comfort ’ from Bank of Edinburgh 's largest minority shareholder , Scottish Amicable , with 39.2 per cent , effectively asking it to stand behind depositors and take a more active role . |
| 23 | The Midlands ' shop stewards knew it was only a question of time before the strike affected supplies to their own plants and those in the South , jeopardising the recovery plan which had been producing such vast improvements in performance . |
| 24 | A bird of prey which had been flying loose since the weekend is back with its owner . |
| 25 | Some of the organisations which had been utilising temporary workers for a number of years had people in their temporary workforce who had been employed by them several times , sometimes for several months at a time , who had not worked elsewhere in the interim . |
| 26 | As a result , two other trains from the North-East , which had been making additional stops in York at 7.34 and 7.53 , will no longer do so . |
| 27 | Indeed , objects used for inspiration by the artists in the nineteenth-century Paris studios were from parts of West Africa which had been making such images for European consumption for centuries ( Donne 1978 ) . |
| 28 | In my own heart , the fires of love and conviction about Africa , which had been burning low , began to blaze again . |
| 29 | It was only a good six minutes later that this squadron of battleships , which had been steaming some 8km/5mls behind Beatty in his flagship Lion , turned ; this delay left the squadron about 16km/10mls behind Beatty 's battlecruisers . |
| 30 | The springer which had been lying buttered on the floor midway between the two slewed an eye in the direction of Vanessa Dersingham when she spoke . |