Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [v-ing] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night , standing on the deck of Devlin 's ketch as they rapidly approached the island , she 'd been thinking the same thing . |
| 2 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 3 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 4 | But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same . |
| 5 | Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed . |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | There were those amongst his small circle of intimates who said it would be his undoing , but they or their predecessors had been prophesying the same for three decades , and Klein had out-prospered every one of them . |
| 8 | She further alleged that an older brother had been doing the same . |
| 9 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 10 | I mean the number 's quite , I said you , you reaffirmed that the number was the same one that had been doing the same thing in , in Wokingham . |
| 11 | It was hard to believe we had been indulging the same appetite for climbing and on the same crag I had visited during a July heatwave three years before . |
| 12 | John-William had been saying the same thing himself when Ben Braithwaite had still been in his cradle . |
| 13 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |