Example sentences of "[vb past] be [v-ing] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But it 's all so ironic — if my little tinkering with her inhaler had n't led to her death nobody would have known that Doreen guessed — that I 'd been helping myself to the firm 's cash now and then — only piffling amounts over the years I 'd been with them , a few thousand here and there , just enough for some designer clothes and jewellery . |
| 2 | We 'd been using it for a while since we had to leave Riverside Studios , trying out a couple of new singers . |
| 3 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 4 | He 's costing me a fortune in tights — I wondered who 'd been taking them at first . |
| 5 | It was clear that she 'd been taking him for a ride , in that there was no ride in it for him at the end of the process . |
| 6 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 7 | He 'd been expecting something like Abbotsfield or the decaying Georgian splendours of St Clement 's Vicarage in Church Row . |
| 8 | He 'd been expecting something like this since Isabel had killed the soldier . |
| 9 | They were soon strolling with me round the house as if they 'd been expecting me for weeks . |
| 10 | And the lock did n't turn as he 'd been expecting it to — |
| 11 | Well in that case and they 'd been stopping them for us you see and er excuse me stopping them for us and whoever decided to speak to them has had his few words and that 's it carry on . |
| 12 | I was surprised because she 'd been throwing herself at him all day and not getting anywhere much . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ In a fairy story one of them would ride up to the avenue here on a white horse and say they 'd been wanting you as part of their lives for years , ’ Benny said . |
| 14 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 15 | We 'd been feeding him from the hand like , oh . |
| 16 | Well , what we did was we what we did was we erm found the alarm system to try and calculate some reasonable output rates erm but what we found was the output rates seemed incredibly low using based on the completion that they have got So what we was we erm took the nine week 's work that they 'd done and erm plus they 'd obviously based our output rates on that erm just for a little example , using the allowances we have n't got whereas actually we 'd been calculating it on what they had n't worked so , that was basically what we So moving on to the actual short-term programme |
| 17 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 18 | I suppose it came into my room for a few minutes to see a book I 'd been telling him about , then he left and I hit the sack . |
| 19 | She deserved it , she 'd been tormenting me for weeks , calling me Comic Stripper because I told better jokes than she did . |
| 20 | She 'd been wearing it to the office that morning and put on an overall for the art class in the afternoon . |
| 21 | Eventually it was he who told her mother when she was about eight months pregnant : " We 'd been planning it for ages to tell them but we had n't had the nerve to get round to it . |
| 22 | You 'd been planning it for about |
| 23 | Maybe it was she who 'd been deluding herself about the state of his and Sandra 's relationship , and not the other way around . |
| 24 | They wanted their own announcer , a local girl , not one from London , and as I 'd been presenting it on radio since I was 13 , they asked me to try my hand on television . |
| 25 | And I 'd been paying it for two years then |
| 26 | She 'd been avoiding it for so long , but she had no choice about facing it now . |
| 27 | They 'd been keeping it under lights , and it seemed to be growing quite happily with one end in a pot of special plant water . |
| 28 | I thought you 'd been putting something in my tea for years . |
| 29 | From their position on the block , he 'd been steadying it with his left hand while drawing out a knife with his right . ’ |
| 30 | I 'd been doing it for five years . |