Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now I had been hanging back , attempting to develop some strategy . |
| 2 | I had been drinking before . |
| 3 | I had been reaching up to put packets and tins into one of the wall cupboards , but this startled me into turning . |
| 4 | It was not until eleven years later that I returned to England and saw Biddy and Joe again , although I had been writing regularly to them . |
| 5 | In Doncaster over Christmas , I had been thinking constantly about criticizing the Government . |
| 6 | I had been thinking quickly . |
| 7 | This was a disappointment , since I had been striving even more to acquire expertise in Italian affairs , and I was doing some propaganda work for the BBC , some of which was ‘ beamed ’ to the Arab population of Libya . |
| 8 | And the question I had been holding down with my domestic frenzy , my sorting and tidying , my focus on Matter , burst through : would the decay have set in ? |
| 9 | I had been saving up to buy a cooker and fridge and Brian 's mum and dad gave us some of the furniture . |
| 10 | He said , ‘ Do have a look at the price of some of the things in here , there 's even a knitting machine ’ and there for all to see was an Erka Twinbed Knitting Machine with carrying case and stand for 45 guineas , the very thing Grace Worrell had been asking about in the letter I had been reading only a few seconds before . |
| 11 | To dwell on the Caledonian Canal for a moment , this was my first of many passages through which is for me the most beautiful of all the canals — the ultimate in inland waterways , so I had been looking forward to it immensely . |
| 12 | I had been looking forward to going to what I called ‘ big school ’ . |
| 13 | I am disappointed that none of those hon. Members is in his place , because I had been looking forward to their contributions and should have liked to address the odd remark to them , but I shall do that in any event . |
| 14 | As I had already been rock-climbing I decided it was time to take part in the activity which I had been looking forward to , canoeing ! |
| 15 | ‘ I had been playing well since I returned from America , but the putts have just not dropped . |
| 16 | And I had er had given myself a target of five thousand for Leith so I turned up the next and made my five thousand in fact I made five thousand and fifty signatures for the h and I believe myself if , if every branch were doing the same as I had been doing then we would have no problem at all in getting a hundred thousand signatures which is our aim . |
| 17 | I had been doing about 15mph when this traumatic event occurred . |
| 18 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 19 | ‘ So it does n't matter if I say no , ’ I said with some relief , for I had been feeling somewhat guilty at risking Thessy 's chances of making some money . |
| 20 | I was gratified to have your letter , as I had been wondering how you were faring , but understood that you must be too busy to write . |
| 21 | My family thought I had been studying too hard . |
| 22 | Although previously I had been walking only on weekends , I was now walking up to five times a week for half an hour at a time . |
| 23 | On a course recently someone suggested I had been talking too much and should be told to keep quiet . |
| 24 | And there was one just next to the door that must have come in while I had been lying there , unable to move . |
| 25 | From the far edge of the terrace I could see down to where I had been lying only an hour or two before . |
| 26 | I heard this with embarrassment , remembering how terribly bored and miserable I had been sitting there on a long hot afternoon , hardly understanding a word as chiefs and elders talked to our delegation in local dialect . |
| 27 | In fact , I had been heading resolutely towards a myocardial infarct for at least 15 years . |
| 28 | If I had been working properly and systematically I should have gone back and looked at this — ; and other receptors — in detail in IMHV . |
| 29 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 30 | It fitted in with what I had been working out already . |