Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would not have been followed by the effect if some other event or condition had been missing . ) |
| 2 | They were standing by the desk in the library , where Theda had been going over the household accounts when the lawyer arrived , Hector , his wound still troublesome , laying at her feet . |
| 3 | At least , where Masklin had been sitting . |
| 4 | They were in the kitchen , where Hannele had been drinking milk when he returned . |
| 5 | Screams rang out from the galleries , where spectators had been gazing down instead of hiding . |
| 6 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
| 7 | The combination of prophetic denunciation and broad generalization did not appeal to his contemporaries ; as one of his colleagues in the Chandos Group ( where Eliot had been discussing the matters contained in his book ) wrote later , " It is understandable that The Idea of a Christian Society should make little appeal to the large majority of the intelligentsia . |
| 8 | Bernice decided that Ell had been watching too many films . |
| 9 | Kochen maintained that DEC had been taking a worldwide census of ‘ hundreds of customers ’ recently to ascertain whether OSF/1-on-MIPS was a viable policy . |
| 10 | While the specialist was examining her legs , Janet mentioned that Lisa had been suffering from aches in her neck . |
| 11 | They must be the ones that Mum had been eating when you I came in . |
| 12 | She wondered what Spiderglass would do to Chesarynth when they found out that Jezrael had been trying to free her . |
| 13 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour . |
| 14 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour and asked that Dodman be sent for psychiatric help . |
| 15 | I did n't know that Ben had been following me around for the last five years ! |
| 16 | Although Frankie had been dozing , he was too hungry to sleep for more than a few minutes at a time . |
| 17 | Any unease that Lucy had been feeling now vanished in the face of Charlie 's uncharacteristic embarrassment . |
| 18 | The trial , on 4 February , heard that Shiloh had been running in a race at Carfin dog track in August last year when he broke his leg . |
| 19 | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney . |
| 20 | But he had barely been gone for an hour when there came the signal that Thorfinn had been waiting for . |
| 21 | He was conscious that Therese had been engaging in ‘ business ’ but had n't appreciated how it had looked from the front until it was too late to do anything about it . |
| 22 | Mr Hirst added that Hilton had been discussing the possibility of moving into India and had already evaluated properties in Delhi and Bombay with the aim of a management contract with a small amount of equity . |
| 23 | Following his death reports emerged that Falcone had been working closely with Judge Antonio di Pietro on the investigations into corruption in Milan 's local government [ see below ] . |
| 24 | The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus . |
| 25 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 26 | ( We can see how the new Aeschylean note that Nietzsche had been sounding since his lectures of 1870 was , like much else , in harmony with Wagner 's aspiration . ) |
| 27 | We guessed , wrongly , that Frank had been talking back home . |
| 28 | It had never occurred to her that Christopher had been thinking of these things too . |
| 29 | ‘ Oh , piss off , ’ he 'd said finally , which was exactly the reaction that Pete had been expecting . |
| 30 | Gabriel went back to her table , conscious that Cat had been listening , but probably could n't make more of it than he already knew . |