Example sentences of "[pron] had been [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 2 | Because I had been understudying Constance Donovan I was now to play Lydia , the second lead . |
| 3 | It was as if I had been expecting visitors . |
| 4 | As I had been enjoying Marlborough , which in atmosphere , personnel , and not least location , was in total contrast to the Sloane School , Chelsea , I no doubt gave him a slightly rose-tinted account of the life there . |
| 5 | In the lead-up to the trip I had been telling Nat about the Northern Lights and how wonderful they were . |
| 6 | I had been freelancing reviews for NME , but always sent them by post , when the very nice man at Sounds poached me to go and do nice juicy features . |
| 7 | I felt my lip curl , and the inside of my mouth dry out and tighten as if I had been sucking lemons . |
| 8 | And this was cracked fracture from osteoporosis now , if I had been getting H R T at that time I might have been less disfigured . |
| 9 | I had been reading Tales from the Iliad . |
| 10 | During my travels round Ireland , I had been reading Sleeman 's Rambles and Recollections of an Indian Magistrate . |
| 11 | For the past week I had been learning lines in preparation for an appearance in a new play due to start rehearsing later that month , and I loathed interruptions . |
| 12 | A Spanish recruit I had been playing poker against started making faces and gesturing behind the Padre 's back , when suddenly , without taking his eyes off the Frenchman to whom he had been talking , the priest jerked his elbow backwards into the Spaniard 's face , slamming him against an oven . |
| 13 | At the time I was playing a Les Paul , which was n't my first choice because I had been playing Telecasters when Stevie ( Nicks ) and I were working together before we joined Fleetwood Mac , but when we joined the band there was an existing sound and the Telecaster was n't cutting it . |
| 14 | In my desperation I had been making plans to try and sneak the putter from Harley 's bag to have a surreptitious look at it — a truly dicey plan because Harley rarely let the putter out of his sight and , when he did , his caddie obviously had instructions to guard it with his life . |
| 15 | He said yesterday : ‘ I 'm sure I had been making inquiries ( in 1945 ) about what would happen to people who we sent back . |
| 16 | Bill : I had been having sex , occasionally , with men since I was about fourteen but I had no gay social life at all . |
| 17 | I had been having trouble with arthritis for years , and nine years ago had a hip replacement . |
| 18 | I had been visiting Welcombe with Nigel since 1960 . |
| 19 | I had been visiting houses and gardens that were open for the day to the public . |
| 20 | I had been visiting villages to the north of the parish . |
| 21 | ‘ I had been visiting hospitals every week for 37 years but you get a different perspective after something like this . |
| 22 | Someone had been making clay ashtrays and abstract plant pots . |
| 23 | For the left , the social contract was to be intimately connected with the industrial policy which had been taking shape under the auspices of the National Executive Committee over the early '70s . |
| 24 | The period investigated is one of increased interest in political and academic circles in the implications of the decisive shift in the British age structure , towards a higher proportion of older people , which had been taking place since the beginning of the century . |
| 25 | Despite a post-election resumption of fighting , a breakthrough in negotiations appeared imminent following the March round of the UN-sponsored peace talks between the government and the FMLN ( which had been taking place at monthly intervals over the past year ) . |
| 26 | The news item was on the front page : the British Government , which had been sending aid and supplies to Poland to assist her fight against the Russian Soviet , had changed its policy . |
| 27 | Its hillside position is exceptional and its views of the surrounding countryside entrancing , but it is best known among Italians as the place gentle Saint Francis is said to have tamed a mean , ferocious wolf which had been terrorising locals . |
| 28 | It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since . |
| 29 | In one case a field officer inspecting a large garage which had been causing problems with an oil discharge was given an extensive tour of the premises and an offer of ( unspecified ) help with his car ( this case , together with the lavish hospitality of the McDonald 's case described in Chapter 2 , were the only examples of an inducement , however vague , being made in my presence ) . |
| 30 | The job grew daily more loathsome to her and she understood now the defiant wretchedness which had been devouring Rose when they first met . |