Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 2 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 3 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 4 | I did n't know what to say , but I 'd been reading about mating in a book only a few days before , so I kept a perfectly straight face and replied . |
| 5 | Until very late the previous night I had been writing about Krakatoa and trials by Fire , and was deeply asleep when the cat woke me . |
| 6 | However , whilst searching through various books in my library , I chanced upon my copy of Folklore , Myths and Legends of Britain and wondered if there were anything mentioned about the Silbury Hill area that I had been writing about . |
| 7 | On the boat , I had been reading about the shooting of Fergal Caraher at the South Armagh checkpoint at Cullyhanna and now , in the darkness , as details of the story flooded back , I decided against pressing the buzzer . |
| 8 | I had been talking about it ever since our time out there . |
| 9 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 10 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 11 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 12 | She 'd been thinking about becoming a nun but she could n't be with a baby . |
| 13 | She 'd been thinking about something , or somebody , else . |
| 14 | Cos Ange said she 'd , she 'd been chatting about Jenny to her . |
| 15 | She 'd been reading about how Egyptians believed cats guided your dreams , and dreamed that she was roaming around their flat from a cat 's point of view . |
| 16 | It was something she 'd been wondering about . |
| 17 | And I read that book and erm Marie , erm said said that they 've got new ones so that so that , excuse me , she 'd been talking about I 'd just made myself a pie I could n't eat any of it ! |
| 18 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 19 | She had been thinking about her future and discussing it with her parents , and all of them had decided to sell the shop . |
| 20 | The sergeant saw her eyes were dim with sadness and he guessed she had been thinking about her former husband . |
| 21 | It annoyed her even more that his continuing aristocratic demeanour disappointed her after the way she had been thinking about him . |
| 22 | She had been thinking about nothing else except this phone call for days now , wrestling with the conflict of emotions that were raging inside . |
| 23 | But already her mind was full of him , her triumph shrinking , slipping between her fingers like that future of silk and satin and feathered bonnets she had been dreaming about so eagerly an hour ago . |
| 24 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 25 | She had been talking about the rumble with the Daughters of the American Revolution , playing with Seth 's glasses , putting them on and taking them off . |
| 26 | My daughter thought no more of it than if she had been talking about the delivery of a letter because in her world the fax , like the video recorder , the personal computer and the microwave oven , has always been around . |
| 27 | I was interested in the thing in B A I E news which you had been talking about getting grants for people to do it |
| 28 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 29 | is the knowledge that if er , we 'd been talking about them two hundred and fifty years ago we 'd be put on trial and probably burnt to death . |
| 30 | ‘ We 'd been talking about getting married for quite a while , ’ said Nicky . |