Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been expecting this , for David Thomson had written of Woodbrook 's fall from splendour once the Maxwell family had succeeded in buying house and grounds from the former landlords , the Kirkwoods . |
| 2 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 3 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 4 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 5 | All my short life I had been told this , and I had no answer to it . |
| 6 | How would you feel if you 'd been paying this money for ten years and then you lived , you lived after than , and you got nothing for it basically . |
| 7 | She 'd been dreading this . |
| 8 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
| 9 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 10 | She had been imagining this meeting for some time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | She had been fighting this insidious physical attraction , trying to deny its existence ever since they 'd met . |
| 13 | We 'd been expecting this news for so long that we were scarcely able to take it in , in fact we were fairly incredulous . |
| 14 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 15 | So after they 'd been using this stuff with no windows open or anything , one of the workmen began to feel a little bit groggy so he said to his mate and open the back door Charlie , will you , I 'm feeling a bit groggy . |
| 16 | Waiting for this programme and erm when the husband , her partner went home they 'd been to see this , I do n't know quite what happened |
| 17 | Erm and people had been paying insurance i it changed then cos some of the farmers could go on their pension they 'd been paying this new scheme you see . |
| 18 | On the following day , Stanley told the Finance Committee of the India Council that they had been offered this site , and pointed out the advantages of buying the land from the Government rather than obtaining a special Act of Parliament . |
| 19 | It was not the first time they had been told this . |
| 20 | But lately he 'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave , Rampage . |
| 21 | ‘ He 'd been wearing this over the shirt he wore for the sitting , ’ Edwards said , ‘ and at the end of the last sitting just as he was leaving , as an afterthought , he said , ‘ Oh you better have this ’ and took it off and gave it to me , like the end of a football match . ’ |
| 22 | Well I mean I , apparently he 'd been giving this , this guy stick like all day . |
| 23 | ‘ From the expression on Rik 's face , you would think he 'd been doing this sort of stuff all his life , ’ Gerald says . |
| 24 | He had become involved in the administration of St Anne 's House in Soho , for example ; it had been opened this year as a " centre of Christian discourse " , and in the autumn he and Philip Mairet conducted a discussion group , " Toward the Definition of Culture " which met once a week until the middle of December . |
| 25 | He had been conducting this little enterprise since the age of twelve , wearing false moustaches and passing for sixteen . |
| 26 | He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say . |
| 27 | He had been dreading this . |
| 28 | But he knew that he was right and , much more , he felt that he was good , that he had been given this chance to act well , that he must take it and to take it would get him off on a new and better path ; while to succumb would be the broad and easy road to hell . |
| 29 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 30 | However , it got so bad one day — I think he had been discussing this with his father because he used to go home sometimes at the weekends and come back to the flat on Monday — and he came in one day and said , ‘ OK , it 's going to be cabaret ’ . |