Example sentences of "[adv] i 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Now I had been hanging back , attempting to develop some strategy . |
| 4 | A few days earlier I had been thinking of calling my doctor to assess the chances of having my vasectomy reversed in order to save my marriage to Karen . |
| 5 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 6 | I had or had had cancer — a most serious disease — yet I had been talking as if it was all a joke . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The last time I had been on Shunner Fell two years previously I had been walking the Pennine Way and had left Tan Hill on a rainy June day , with heavy clouds following me south as I travelled . |
| 9 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |