Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [v-ing] some [adj] " in BNC.

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1 And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going .
2 The results of the Concorde trial came as ‘ a considerable shock ’ , he says , particularly to those who had been expecting some positive outcome , however small .
3 He had been reading some fine sentiments in a little book of Carlyle 's , his Heroes and Hero-Worship .
4 These 42ft vehicles were sleeping saloons and , after they had been running some little time , some ordinary coaches 34ft in length , carried on six wheels , were built ; these had a total wheel base of 22ft , or 11 ft between centres .
5 Also at the conference were two Australian ex-professional sprinters , John Dinan and Chris Perry , who had been running some fast times during the Antipodean summer .
6 p.48 ) ; ‘ R. D. B. Fraser … had been doing some serious playing with three-chain models ’ ( ibid .
7 Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends !
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