Example sentences of "[pron] we had been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After two pitches I suffered one of those inexplicable aberrations and instead of following the blatantly curving crack into which we had been cramming our limbs for the last 60ft I launched up an unerringly straight vertical groove above the belay . |
| 2 | In the same way , the ears , which we had been led to believe revealed the horse 's emotions , are not really good indicators of a horse 's feelings on their own . |
| 3 | And in understanding the old picture so vividly , he has prepared us to appreciate , and to understand , many things which we either could not previously have hoped to understand , or which we had been looking at with half-open eyes . |
| 4 | The news that Karen and I were married was made public at a buffet brunch given by Thomas and Lynn Carter to which we had been invited — or rather Karen had been invited , and had asked if it would be all right to bring me along . |
| 5 | Reg and I were most vitriolic about the risk to which we had been exposed and hoped that the Germans would be just as inefficient . ’ |
| 6 | what instructions had been given to the architects as to the ground they were to cover ; how far Parliament would be bound by the decision of the Commission [ of Judges ] ; and how we were to guard ourselves against an expenditure which we had been told by high authority would amount to not much less than £5,000,000 or £6,000,000 … |
| 7 | The servant banished the dogs and threw logs into the great tiled stove before which we had been sitting . |
| 8 | A small hole was dug , the cigarette buried , songs sung over the grave and then the whole procession wended its w ? y round the field four times singing the funeral march from Aida , which we had been practising for a week . |
| 9 | Hamilton greeted him with emotional thanks and immediately surrendered our papers : our little Nansen passport , our Portuguese visa , even the ticket coupon with which we had been issued at the harbour of Salerno . |
| 10 | When Bill left us in October 1964 for Coventry , with whom we had been promoted just six months previously , it was for the then record fee of £35,000 for a goalkeeper and he repaid that fee to the Sky Blues in a distinguished career of 395 matches over the next decade . |
| 11 | I forget what we had been talking and arguing about , but probably it was something connected with our continuing confusions about poetry and sex . |
| 12 | Last night , while sitting doing my ration of embroidery , I thought of what we had been talking about — the paying guest , and have come to the conclusion that you ought not to undertake such a responsibility as you have had such a difficult time in one way and another with sickness and trouble . |
| 13 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 14 | But this was a great feeling of what we had been used to over the years in watching American movies and , with our tongue in cheek and a bit of a giggle , seeing the adventures of the cavalry arriving , And for the first time in our years of combat I had a glow , a rosy glow , inside me and I knew and was certain for the very first time now we could not be beaten . |
| 15 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 16 | And for thirty years I and my fellow teachers , as we went back to our classrooms , have said to ourselves , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ ’ , and had gone on doing just what we had been doing all along , which was to try to bribe , scare or shame children into learning what someone else had decided they ought to know . |
| 17 | We did n't sit down thinking deeply about what we had been doing or anything like that , largely because we were teaching at the same time . |
| 18 | Erm it is always been planned that the this er release of the flight control system will be phased through five steps and the capabilities at first flight are more or less what we had been planning er right from the outset . |
| 19 | Erm it has always been planned that the this er release of the flight control system , will be phased through five steps and the capabilities at first flight are more or less what we had been planning er right from the outset . |
| 20 | They called us in told us some information about there being no work , then left a pile of envelopes on a table telling us we had been made redundant . |