Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had rather been hoping that I might see somebody I knew while I was in the town , but the only people I saw were old Mackenzie in the gun and tackle shop and Mrs Stuart in the cafe , yawning and fat behind her Formica counters and reading a Mills & boon . |
| 2 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |
| 3 | In fact , if I had n't been living here I doubt they would have noticed us at all ! |
| 4 | I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high . |
| 5 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 6 | What you were saying about approachability of lecturers , I 'm not afraid to ask for help , but I am reticent to ask for help more than once on the same thing , because I would hate them to think that I had n't been listening first time round or that I was stupid . |
| 7 | I actually went back upstairs and because , I mean although , I mean I was dancing and it was a late night , I had n't been drinking so , you know , although I was , I was tired , you know I had n't been drinking and erm so I actually felt erm wide awake |
| 8 | I actually went back upstairs and because , I mean although , I mean I was dancing and it was a late night , I had n't been drinking so , you know , although I was , I was tired , you know I had n't been drinking and erm so I actually felt erm wide awake |
| 9 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 10 | I had n't been expecting him quite so soon . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , you 'd have had the lot pilfered if I had n't been guarding them and suffered the most ghastly discomfort in the process . |
| 12 | I had n't been feeling too well all day , but after opening-time when Toby 'd gone out to get the wine I started to feel better and began to dress . |
| 13 | ‘ I had n't been feeling terrific ’ , he went on , ‘ since I got into the hospital . |
| 14 | What I did n't say was that I had n't been making love to her but to Alison , taking her from behind on the kitchen table , her rump high in the air and her toes squirming helplessly an inch or two off the floor . |
| 15 | I , I , I love poking , but it 's so funny what you see , now if I had n't been poking , know that little bonsai tree ? |
| 16 | Now if I had n't been poking around that shop and in an |
| 17 | I said I had n't been playing . |
| 18 | Do you remember that evening — I had n't been working for you for very long — and you gave me a lift home ? ’ |
| 19 | I had n't been planning to come to England , but I wanted to meet you . |
| 20 | Well I I had n't been shutting the one that do n't make no difference still , there 's only cos Pavarotti 's out anyway ! |
| 21 | I had also been taking up quite a lot of time for public service , chairing the National Gas Consumers ' Council , and also , more relevantly , working under Richard Hoggart who was chairing the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education , which had a remit to develop national policies for education as a process continuing throughout life . |
| 22 | I had also been having problems with my gut . |
| 23 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 24 | ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers . |
| 25 | 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 ! |
| 26 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 27 | If I had not been chasing that gipsy woman I could have gone to the party and chased Leila . ’ |
| 28 | I had not been thinking about him , I had not even seen him for months . |
| 29 | When I first read Nairn ( it was published in 1987 ) I had not been contemplating Johnson : now , in the late sunlight coming through my bedroom window , I rushed to him and Boswell . |
| 30 | Charles Archer says , ‘ I had just been manning my gun and had sat down when we took the hit . |