Example sentences of "[pron] had been [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been counting on his saying no to at least one of those , so that I could issue a hollow guffaw and depart , shaking my head ruefully ; but he did not , and I had no choice but to slink away or sign in . |
| 2 | If I had been playing on my own my head would have dropped off by now . |
| 3 | Alec and I had been climbing on his right-hand side . |
| 4 | If you take into account the fact that I have been up till after midnight every night since Monday , that I have a cold , and that that morning I had been talking on a sore throat from 9.30 to 1 o'clock , perhaps you will understand . ’ |
| 5 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 6 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 7 | Now although I am a born sceptic , suddenly being brought face to face with a seemingly identical facsimile of what I had been working on did make me pause for a few moments ! |
| 8 | For the first time local Labour parties were given some sense of common identity , which had been lacking on the political wing since the disaffiliation of the ILP . |
| 9 | I was in a French class at school when I picked up a copy of the magazine , which had been lying on one of the tables . |
| 10 | MI6 , the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) , began life in 1911 under the control of the Foreign Office , which had been spying on other countries for over 400 years . |
| 11 | The ex-London United cars which had been working on the Croydon — Mitcham route were now transferred to the Sutton route , to work alongside the J type cars ( 1s-16s ) , four of which were withdrawn and sent to Brixton Hill . |
| 12 | The ash which had been falling on St Pierre since the beginning of May 1902 continued to accumulate , sifting down softly to cover the ruins of St Pierre in a grey pall and burying many of the bodies that still lay in the debris . |
| 13 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 14 | Constance had lost Ludo — something she had been dreading on the journey up from Florence — but she was not alarmed . |
| 15 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 16 | She had been working on them ever since she had got home , reading and re-reading the articles , but there was still no clue to unravel the mystery . |
| 17 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 18 | She had been sleeping on the same step for three nights . |
| 19 | She had been relying on her blade , her teeth and her hands for too long . |
| 20 | She had been standing on the pavement , holding some silly banner — ‘ EDUCATION CUTS ARE NOT COMIC ’ , or something like that — talking and laughing excitedly with a big-bosomed woman stuffed into a scarlet ski-suit and pink moon boots , and he remembered thinking to himself : so it 's finally happened — designer industrial action . |
| 21 | She had been standing on her own , holding a teacup in front of her , not looking about her , but rather fixedly out of the window , as though she expected no one to approach and invited no one . |
| 22 | She had been standing on the bank above him with her booted feet apart , her hands jammed into the pockets of her tight-fitting breeches , and for a fleeting instant he looked at her appraisingly as he had done at the reception . |
| 23 | She had been sitting on the shingle staring out to sea , her arms clasped round her knees , Timmy lying asleep on the small rug beside her . |
| 24 | She had been sitting on the edge of the bed , and now she leaned forward to take the other woman 's hand again . |
| 25 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |
| 26 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |
| 27 | The 31-year-old victim 's wife , who had been drifting on an anchor line 10ft below their charter boat , was uninjured . |
| 28 | A man who had been living on his own committed suicide . |
| 29 | James Curran , the left-wing media intellectual who had been advising on market research , leaked his involvement to Tribune , the established semi-official paper of the traditional Labour left . |
| 30 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |