Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 3 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 4 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I got a bit worried when I found you 'd been sending your subordinates out to buy crucifixes . ’ |
| 6 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 7 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 8 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 9 | He found he had been speaking the memory out into the night and among the bleak cages around . |
| 10 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 11 | When they had left the cinema , they found it had been raining so Yanto decided the standing position would be favourite . |
| 12 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 13 | Mind you I 'd I 'd been running er ru running the tail route , that 's another route as you meet on er goes onto a gate on the left hand side where you got wagons about eight wagons , put it put them back , fasten this rope at the back . |
| 14 | ‘ Labour members saw the letter I had sent and automatically assumed I had been misusing the Commons franking machine . |
| 15 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 16 | I do n't we got about three , three thirty in the morning , both of them went out to er canal somewhere up Dulgate , past Dulgate we set up and we 'd we 'd been fishing for about two and half hours it 's aba about six thirty in the morning this old farmer comes up says er aye , aye lads , he said er I would n't bother it , they drained this area of the canal a few months ago ! |
| 17 | All that those LA police offices had to say to get acquitted of beating Rodney King was that they believed he had been using PCP . |
| 18 | He killed 19-year-old Walter Smith because he believed he had been mistreating his childhood friend Sharon . |
| 19 | At least one assumed he had been watching the sky , there being little else to view from his small window other than roof-tiles and guttering . |
| 20 | ‘ Ever since we met you 've been acting quite out of character . ’ |
| 21 | It was only then she realised she 'd been holding her breath . |
| 22 | Virginia realised she 'd been gripping the steering-wheel unnecessarily tightly and consciously relaxed , forcing a laugh and wincing as the vibration worsened her headache . |
| 23 | After a while she realised she 'd been beating at him with her fists hard enough to hurt and yet he had n't lifted a finger to stop her . |
| 24 | She sat up and rubbed her eyes , colouring furiously as she realised she had been using Roman 's shoulder for a head-rest . |
| 25 | Have you not read novels , been to the cinema and watched the hero and heroine embracing and realized you have been missing a great deal ? |
| 26 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
| 27 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 28 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 29 | The sergeant saw her eyes were dim with sadness and he guessed she had been thinking about her former husband . |
| 30 | 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 ! |