Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
| 2 | It was n't until later , when Robyn heard Anne 's key in the lock , that she realised just how long she had been staring into space , miserably going over and over the disastrous weekend , in a futile attempt to try and put it all back into some sort of perspective . |
| 3 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 4 | ‘ I hoped that perhaps you had been doing something for the welfare of these poor peoples , ’ persisted Daisy . |
| 5 | During the last half hour or so she had been pacing the room like a caged animal , insisting that the door should be kept ajar and the window opened wide . |
| 6 | So she had been asking after him . |
| 7 | Ruth had no idea how long they had been driving when Sean turned the horses off the road on to a narrow side track . |
| 8 | Perhaps they had been discussing me . |
| 9 | Apparently he had been devising procedural systems for years , but nobody used them and everybody laughed at him . |
| 10 | He did not know how long he had been sleeping but woke up hungry and decided to sneak into the kitchens for a tin of soup . |
| 11 | er do you know the er , it looked a fairly new building , I do n't know how long it had been going , she 's a member of the something club |
| 12 | Ledeen noticed that the official was looking unusually tanned ; perhaps he had been skiing ? |
| 13 | He was speaking rather excitedly , and I thought perhaps he had been drinking . |
| 14 | It occurred to her that perhaps he had been drinking again . |
| 15 | Perhaps he had been trying to pluck up courage to tell Wycliffe himself . |
| 16 | Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover . |
| 17 | The book was all he had been waiting for , and all was going according to plan . |
| 18 | Obviously he had been listening to the battle . |
| 19 | So he had been listening . |
| 20 | The R.S. he had had so proudly stamped on the front was fading now , and the leather strap had almost worn through , so lately I had been carrying the satchel under my arm : Tata would never have considered buying me a new one while the . |
| 21 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 22 | Tilda began to tell him exactly what had been happening in Dr Kildare , so far . |
| 23 | Well , that 's probably right erm I can just about remember it and you know as a child , and it did n't really sink in , it was some years afterwards before it actually sank in exactly what had been going on |
| 24 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 25 | Darren had always been a good and well-behaved boy but once he had returned home he had been waking repeatedly in the night and been difficult to manage in the day . |
| 26 | A moment later he had been dragging her , tray and all , through one of the doors into the vast ballroom . |
| 27 | Now I had been hanging back , attempting to develop some strategy . |
| 28 | But it was impossible to tell now who had been speaking or even to be sure at which of the small crowded tables the speaker sat . |
| 29 | For the past five days now she had been living somewhere on cloud nine , and had decided that she might just as well set up home there , as it was such a wonderful place to be . |
| 30 | Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other . |