Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [vb past] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
| 2 | And the circumfe and erm diameter on I 'd been cutting a lot of them down , the diameter of them was from four foot to about six foot . |
| 3 | She did n't know how long she 'd been lying there . |
| 4 | It was n't until later , when Robyn heard Anne 's key in the lock , that she realised just how long she had been staring into space , miserably going over and over the disastrous weekend , in a futile attempt to try and put it all back into some sort of perspective . |
| 5 | OK , so perhaps she 'd been pushing it a little ! |
| 6 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 7 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 8 | Did n't you fantasize about what might have occurred if only you 'd been holding your breath at the time and a gun as well ? |
| 9 | During the last half hour or so she had been pacing the room like a caged animal , insisting that the door should be kept ajar and the window opened wide . |
| 10 | So she had been asking after him . |
| 11 | It was then Gedanken realized that all along she had been hearing the voices of the beetles over a loudspeaker . |
| 12 | Ruth had no idea how long they had been driving when Sean turned the horses off the road on to a narrow side track . |
| 13 | Perhaps they had been discussing me . |
| 14 | I mean when you 're on picket line it 's very depressing it 's very heart breaking unless you get some comedian or something you know it gets er y you do n't know what to do with yourself and perhaps they 'd been taking pots of this paint I 'm not saying . |
| 15 | So they 'd been playing cat and mouse game and er it has n't paid off you know . |
| 16 | So they 'd been talking about it already . |
| 17 | Apparently he had been devising procedural systems for years , but nobody used them and everybody laughed at him . |
| 18 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
| 19 | Apparently he 'd been telling all the other English teachers about it and now they all wanted their classes to see and hear about Hadwick 's owl . |
| 20 | Well I mean I , apparently he 'd been giving this , this guy stick like all day . |
| 21 | He did not know how long he had been sleeping but woke up hungry and decided to sneak into the kitchens for a tin of soup . |
| 22 | All night long he 'd been saying it . |
| 23 | How long he 'd been sleeping rough no one could tell . |
| 24 | I had no idea how long he 'd been standing there . |
| 25 | Isabel wondered how long he 'd been sitting there — intent , watchful , waiting . |
| 26 | er do you know the er , it looked a fairly new building , I do n't know how long it had been going , she 's a member of the something club |
| 27 | Ledeen noticed that the official was looking unusually tanned ; perhaps he had been skiing ? |
| 28 | He was speaking rather excitedly , and I thought perhaps he had been drinking . |
| 29 | It occurred to her that perhaps he had been drinking again . |
| 30 | Perhaps he had been trying to pluck up courage to tell Wycliffe himself . |