Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 2 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 3 | I was relieved for myself , as I had been dreading driving again so soon . |
| 4 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 5 | So let's look at now you 've been doing I noticed today you 'd been doing differentiating products . |
| 6 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 7 | She 'd been feeling sick a morning or two , but not so as it interfered with her work , and no one remarked on it . |
| 8 | She 'd been feeling lonely and vulnerable . |
| 9 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 10 | She felt great , better rested than she 'd felt for weeks now , the little aches of fatigue she 'd been growing used to now all miraculously ironed out . |
| 11 | Marie made a conscious effort to close her mouth , which she knew was hanging open . |
| 12 | She had been wearing blue faded jeans , and a white sweat shirt flattened against the pointed nipples and the upturned breasts ; the cotton seeming too thin a protection against the freshening onshore breeze . |
| 13 | ‘ Not at all , ’ Rain said quickly , deducing she had been looking bored . |
| 14 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 15 | It was again as if she had been struck , her hands barely moving along the surface of the dresser she had been wiping clean of dust , her head going low , and when she finished she went to put the damp cloth carefully beside the sink , moving a simmering saucepan from the hotplate . |
| 16 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 17 | She had been experiencing considerable feelings of grief about her husband and had been able to cry on occasions . |
| 18 | She allowed her steady gaze to flicker from the glass which she had been holding firm . |
| 19 | Seemingly she had been living rough since her owner died and knew a good home when she found one . |
| 20 | She had been working full time in a local factory for the past 8 years and usually enjoyed good relationships with her friends . |
| 21 | In fact she had been feeling tired and queasy for the past few days ; and that night , when the leading man laid her on the sofa , suddenly turned her head and , without letting the audience see , vomited quietly down the sofa back . |
| 22 | Mr Wildish said : ‘ I would n't have thought she had been sleeping rough . ’ |
| 23 | Re-rigging the ship for an Antarctic voyage inside of a week , after she had been lying idle for over a year , was quite impossible . |
| 24 | She had been noting various titles during Joyce 's discourse ; there was a new book about bats that Edward would want , and one or two things she would like to get hold of herself — the sole perquisite of this trade was a surreptitious early pick of incoming titles before they went on the shelves . |
| 25 | SHE HAD BEEN keeping quiet . |
| 26 | She had been sitting still in her seat . |
| 27 | Yeah , well even Laura like she eats salad at school like you know , but erm , she 's got erm , what did we have the other night cos we 'd been eating semi semi Mediterranean food this week |
| 28 | We 'd been practising hard and were having a rest , just standing around and the Head Girl was smoking . |
| 29 | Halfway outbound in the hold the scheduled traffic for which we 'd been waiting landed , and we swooped down , just catching the ILS . |
| 30 | We 'd been playing safe for our own survival , and scores of heterosexuals went unchallenged in their continued acts of heterosexism . |