Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [been] [verb] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 2 | If I had been asked at Christmas whether my home waters of Chew and Blagdon would be full by opening day , the answer would have been an emphatic no . |
| 3 | I had been employed at Jersey House for about two and a half years when I was approached to see if I might like to do a little cleaning work to earn some overtime . |
| 4 | Instinctively I went into a steep spiral dive , furiously angry that I had been beaten at my own game . |
| 5 | After all , that was what I had been aiming at . |
| 6 | When I had first heard of my appointment to Stornoway I had been elated at the prospect of leaving a somewhat dull routine existence down south . |
| 7 | The plain fact of the matter , snobbish though it may sound , was that they were both unintelligent and ill-educated in comparison to myself , belonging as they did to a different social class from the one into which I had been co-opted at school . |
| 8 | I was very interested in their answers to my questions , which often seemed to offer a different view of history from the one I had been taught at school . |
| 9 | Maybe my dad was really and truly dead and what I had been looking at , in the road outside our house and in Furnival Gardens , had been a hologram put out by the Tellenoreans . |
| 10 | ‘ I had been looking at the world ratings and the draw certainly is n't what I had expected , ’ said Gregg . |
| 11 | I saw my new home in October 1981 ; it was about the seventh or eighth place I had been to look at . |
| 12 | Before going to RADA I had been encouraged at my school in school plays , which included Oh , What a Lovely War . |
| 13 | I had been sitting at the table housed in the living room bay window , trying to write a paper for a tutorial the next day , but Gavin and Janice had chosen to punctuate their highly audible coupling sessions ( in what the more tenacious core-areas of my long-term memory still sporadically insisted had once been my bedroom ) with an almost equally noisy episode of tortilla chip eating . |
| 14 | It was a standing pose and I had been working at my canvas for a week , my problems were not nearly solved , and the painting still excited me . |
| 15 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 16 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
| 17 | She had been rededicated at St Luke 's a year previous to that . |
| 18 | They suspected she had been poisoned at the party . |
| 19 | At the girls ' establishment where she had been sent at huge expense to learn music and French and to carry out the ornate disciplines conceived by the headmistress — including communal teeth-washing in the gardens , winter and summer , and then communal gargling into the rosebeds , which the headmistress regarded as a form of manure-spreading — the pain was put down to growing too fast . |
| 20 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 21 | She had been looking at Mick , but turned slowly and looked at Joe , and smiling slightly said , ‘ Yes ; yes , of course . ’ |
| 22 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 23 | She had been looking at the castle for the last hour . |
| 24 | ‘ If you continue to look at me like that we sha n't make it any further than the nearest bed , ’ he murmured , and Claudia jumped ; she had been staring at him hungrily . |
| 25 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
| 26 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 27 | She had been found at two that afternoon by a party searching the Pertsey and north-west region of Vangmoor . |
| 28 | She had been working at the Hopeland missionary camp , helping educate teenage boys . |
| 29 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |
| 30 | From the beginning she had been angered at having to take the girl in , for Lavender had been lovely , and Liti detested her for it . |