Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The villagers would think I had been drinking or wandering in my wits . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 3 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 4 | Awoke to find I had been sharing a room with a group of nuns . |
| 5 | ‘ How did you know someone had been strangling me if everyone else in there was willing to believe I 'd had a fit ? ’ |
| 6 | He opened a bottle of champagne and before she had a chance to realise what was happening they had been making love . |
| 7 | She was fleetingly reminded of Shildon insisting they walked singly into the newsroom so no one should know they had been talking together . |
| 8 | Halfway through the letter , Bruno said in German : ‘ Ah , he is a major in their Army , ’ and then smiled hastily at Maxim because he had forgotten they had been speaking German earlier . |
| 9 | Friends say they had been looking forward to the holiday for months . |
| 10 | She would recognise him when he made his approach , would know he had been behaving deviously but he would be straight into devious matters anyway . |
| 11 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 12 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 13 | He found he had been speaking the memory out into the night and among the bleak cages around . |
| 14 | When they had left the cinema , they found it had been raining so Yanto decided the standing position would be favourite . |
| 15 | In each case , examples of the disclosures in accounts are provided to show what information was available to indicate what had been going on . |
| 16 | Harriet Jarman sat erect as if the noise had helped her solve whatever had been troubling her . |
| 17 | Yet , according to French sources , when François Mitterrand complained about the tone of Mr Bartholomew 's warnings at his recent meeting with President Bush on Martinique , the American president did not know what had been going on . |
| 18 | did n't know what had been happening because he was n't at the meeting . |
| 19 | ‘ Labour members saw the letter I had sent and automatically assumed I had been misusing the Commons franking machine . |
| 20 | Imagine you had been living on bread and water for three years and then someone put a large bowl of cherries on the table in front of you . |
| 21 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 22 | She did n't like the sound of the ‘ second skin' bit at all , and the way he had kidnapped her had been terrifying . |
| 23 | All that those LA police offices had to say to get acquitted of beating Rodney King was that they believed he had been using PCP . |
| 24 | He killed 19-year-old Walter Smith because he believed he had been mistreating his childhood friend Sharon . |
| 25 | When interviewed by police Hardy had said he had been watching the disturbances but denied throwing missiles . |
| 26 | He had said he had been fighting with another man . |
| 27 | At least one assumed he had been watching the sky , there being little else to view from his small window other than roof-tiles and guttering . |
| 28 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 29 | Rachel stared at her sister in silence , shocked by what she had just heard , not so much by the fact that Paul Mason had been married but because he was as different from David Markham as it was possible for a man to be , and none of them had even suspected what had been happening . |
| 30 | To hear Joan Marsdon talking of the PAT ( Pets as Therapy ) work she has done with her dogs Bewey , Chrissy and Beth , you would think she had been operating all her life . |