Example sentences of "[adv] [pers pn] had be [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 4 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So she had been asking after him . |
| 7 | It was then Gedanken realized that all along she had been hearing the voices of the beetles over a loudspeaker . |
| 8 | Ruth had no idea how long they had been driving when Sean turned the horses off the road on to a narrow side track . |
| 9 | Perhaps they had been discussing me . |
| 10 | Apparently he had been devising procedural systems for years , but nobody used them and everybody laughed at him . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | Ledeen noticed that the official was looking unusually tanned ; perhaps he had been skiing ? |
| 14 | He was speaking rather excitedly , and I thought perhaps he had been drinking . |
| 15 | It occurred to her that perhaps he had been drinking again . |
| 16 | Perhaps he had been trying to pluck up courage to tell Wycliffe himself . |
| 17 | Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover . |
| 18 | The book was all he had been waiting for , and all was going according to plan . |
| 19 | Obviously he had been listening to the battle . |
| 20 | So he had been listening . |
| 21 | The R.S. he had had so proudly stamped on the front was fading now , and the leather strap had almost worn through , so lately I had been carrying the satchel under my arm : Tata would never have considered buying me a new one while the . |
| 22 | Bicker was there , looking as tired as if he and not they had been riding and fighting in the past three days . |
| 23 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 24 | Darren had always been a good and well-behaved boy but once he had returned home he had been waking repeatedly in the night and been difficult to manage in the day . |
| 25 | A moment later he had been dragging her , tray and all , through one of the doors into the vast ballroom . |
| 26 | Now I had been hanging back , attempting to develop some strategy . |
| 27 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
| 28 | Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other . |
| 29 | So far they had been doing nothing more than ‘ just walking the dog , Guv ’ . |
| 30 | Until now he had been using one loaned to him by Christian . |