Example sentences of "[pers pn] had 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 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | She had been imagining this meeting for some time . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She had been fighting this insidious physical attraction , trying to deny its existence ever since they 'd met . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It was not the first time they had been told this . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had been conducting this little enterprise since the age of twelve , wearing false moustaches and passing for sixteen . |
| 15 | He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say . |
| 16 | He had been dreading this . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | James got to Corunna , where the whole force had been supposed to rendezvous and pick up Ormonde , in time to see the last battered casualties arrive , grateful perhaps that , so soon after his own recent sufferings in the Mediterranean , he had been spared this further ordeal . |
| 21 | As he entered the study , Stephen reflected on how fortunate he had been to obtain this man 's services . |
| 22 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route everyday for the last ten years . |
| 23 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |