Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this Karajan proved the catalyst everyone had been waiting for . |
| 2 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 3 | I had certainly found the rural setting I had been hankering after . |
| 4 | ‘ To heaven , of course , ’ said Dotty tartly , seizing an enormous wooden spoon and advancing upon an iron saucepan which had been rumbling and grumbling to itself throughout the conversation . |
| 5 | Then he extracted the cassette , hauling out the length of tape which had been recording and stuffed both items in his jacket pocket . |
| 6 | She was between Titron and the assault boat which had been going away from it . |
| 7 | But the odd tension which had been nagging at him seemed to be increasing . |
| 8 | The tension which had been building up since 7am when the 400 demonstrators began gathering , boiled over as the buses arrived two hours late . |
| 9 | She was in the middle of wringing the water out of a red rayon skirt she had been washing at the kitchen sink . |
| 10 | At one point the mistress of disguise demonstrated to her co-accused how the ginger wig she had been wearing when they were stopped by police , fell off as she adjusted her hat . |
| 11 | With this firmly decided , she made her way up to change out of the trousers and sweater she had been wearing all that long day . |
| 12 | Durance said to Rain : ‘ I ca n't believe Joseph does n't understand that selling under her name a painting recognizable as a Durance is equivalent to telling a journalist she had been painting my pictures . |
| 13 | Was he the enemy who had been following us since the very beginning in London ? |
| 14 | They crossed M Street and kept going and in a doorway she snatched off the wig and beret and rammed them into the shoulder bag that had been expanded from the purse she had been carrying before . |
| 15 | A MOTORCYCLIST who had been drinking and was doing 122mph when stopped by police on the M9 near Linlithgow , was fined £350 and banned from driving for three years at Linlithgow Sheriff Court yesterday . |
| 16 | She opened a small peacock-blue fan she had been holding and began to fan herself . |
| 17 | The pleasure she had been feeling turned sour , and she pushed him away . |
| 18 | James Curran , the left-wing media intellectual who had been advising on market research , leaked his involvement to Tribune , the established semi-official paper of the traditional Labour left . |
| 19 | It was an elderly gypsy who had been sitting silently all evening , and the voice was as rough as the open road but when it sang the room became quiet . |
| 20 | Mordecai had said that he usually approached the shop through the bazaar , and that was the side they had been watching . |
| 21 | Once again there was a flurry of bodies from the doorway they had been defending and another charge . |
| 22 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 23 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 24 | Come and sit down , ’ he invited her , indicating the elegant stone-coloured couch he had been occupying . |
| 25 | No answer suggested itself , however , and after a minute or two he became aware that as these thoughts whirled through his mind he had been staring down at the grilles confining the Chinese coolie families . |
| 26 | Technically , says Mr Nearn , it was not a big step for Caterham to move into manufacturing the car it had been selling and marketing for years . |
| 27 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 28 | Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months : |
| 29 | Thus in one moment the veil which had been preventing me from seeing you as you are had been lifted . |
| 30 | Repeated doses of bad news from the front generated mounting criticism of government incompetence ; ministerial confidence was visibly shaken ; and discontent which had been smouldering for years burst into flame . |