Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | This reminds me of the story about the old lady who boasted she had been wearing the same pair of stockings for twenty years — one year she knitted new feet on them and the next new legs ! |
| 32 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 33 | He looked tired and travel-weary and his first words confirmed he had been riding hard . |
| 34 | ‘ I suppose they showed he 'd been drinking ? ’ |
| 35 | ‘ Perhaps I should sell the place and be done with it , ’ he said with an abruptness that showed he 'd been considering the idea for some time . |
| 36 | He then stopped himself in mid-sentence and claimed he had been joking . |
| 37 | The man claimed he had been looking for his girlfriend when challenged by staff members . |
| 38 | He claimed he had been glue-sniffing which made him sexually aroused . |
| 39 | Rob made me a cup of coffee and erm I forgot it had been standing there and er I went to take a mouthful course I got a mouth full of skin did n't I ? |
| 40 | We realised we 'd been depending too much on verbal instructions so we concentrated on producing written safety procedures , including training and planning . |
| 41 | ‘ Once I knew about the other woman , I realised we 'd been drifting apart and that , at weekends , I 'd felt quite distant . |
| 42 | She discovered she 'd been sleeping on her back . |
| 43 | Jobless Mohammed Aylaus , of Surbiton , Surrey , nabbed after The People handed evidence to police , threatened to shoot a prostitute and her children when he discovered she had been witholding money from him , Reading Crown Court was told . |
| 44 | Six months before her overdose Liz terminated the relationship with her boyfriend of two years ' standing after she discovered he had been going out with another girl . |
| 45 | As soon as the five psychiatrists heard he had been lying , they changed their diagnosis — and were prepared to say he had never suffered mental illness . |
| 46 | Some of the theories would have made Balzac blush , but they finally decided I 'd been sleeping with Laura , her husband had beaten me up in a dark alley , and now I was on my way to kill him . |
| 47 | You know both sides were very happy you know it was up with the company or down with the company you know , and I think certainly the younger lads sort of saw it as an infringement upon their future , you know we 've all got mortgages and the o older men who 'd been working since the quarry started you know were gon na see a drop in their standard of living , so I think you know people were getting a bit upset you know that a n a new fella h a new face had come in , and all of a sudden you know changes were being made that were gon na hurt everybody financially . |
| 48 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 49 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 50 | All the time I was away what kept me going was thinking of you here , a real live community , people really living , people really loving . |
| 51 | I thought , I thought someone had been smoking in the toilets . |
| 52 | I knew I 'd been dreaming again ( or whatever we call it ) because , when I came out of it , the wooden post — that old pile I 'd clung to like a drowning man — was nowhere ! |
| 53 | Yet he knew I had been taking the Pill every day . ’ |
| 54 | My family thought I had been studying too hard . |
| 55 | You know , he thought I 'd been telling him a lie . |
| 56 | ‘ I thought I 'd been doing that ! |
| 57 | When I asked why this was so she explained that since her husband died she had been managing well and felt that she had coped with all the trauma . |
| 58 | He stopped and went on in a low voice , ‘ I came back early from school and when I came in I saw she 'd been crying . ’ |
| 59 | She apologised of course ; I gathered she 'd been talking quilts with a fellow enthusiast and had forgotten the time . |
| 60 | He was making her act like a gauche schoolgirl — Aurora Blake , who could hold thousands spellbound with the power of her voice , who could mix happily with kings and commoners — stammering apologetically because a man who had wandered unwanted and uninvited into her garden knew she 'd been looking at him ! |