Example sentences of "[vb past] be [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence . |
| 2 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 3 | They 'd been strolling through the individual gardens within the whole for more than two hours , while Rune told her about the traditions of the gardens and how , despite attempts at imitation , they remained unique in Europe — if not the world — before they reached the area set aside for the funfair and he suggested she might like a ride on some of the attractions . |
| 4 | She apologised , over the phone , the next day ; she 'd been hiding under the bedclothes , playing her favourite David Bowie cassette at maximum volume on her Sony Walkman , trying to drown the noise of the thunder . |
| 5 | Even when she 'd been helping in the kitchen she 'd found her eyes straying , as if magnetised , in his direction . |
| 6 | ‘ Before I burst through that door , I 'd been listening at the window — I distinctly recall that he was refusing to say anything really damning . |
| 7 | It was the Russians they 'd been listening to the whole lot . |
| 8 | A few moments later , acquitted defendant Daniel Winter , who 'd been listening to the closing speeches , ran from the building . |
| 9 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |
| 10 | If she 'd been staying on the boat for any length of time it would have been necessary to find somewhere to go for a shower or a bath , but it did n't look as if that particular problem would arise . |
| 11 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 12 | After all , he 'd been ferreting in the records for a good while . ’ |
| 13 | I did n't need a pee because I 'd been pissing on the Poles during the day , infecting them with my scent and power . |
| 14 | But of course , th , I 'd been living at The Haven then , next to the butcher 's shop . |
| 15 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 16 | Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office . |
| 17 | I 'd been living in the country with my wife when she died unexpectedly . |
| 18 | so we started to look for something and I wanted a bungalow , I did n't want to house again , just the two bedrooms I thought would be nice , so what we did we found this bu er this bungalow in er out of Crewe in Haslington and er we put up our house for sale , it cost seventeen thousand , five hundred and this bungalow we bought seventeen thousand , six hundred and fifty , so all I had to add was one hundred and sixty pounds , to sell the house , but the house needed change all the windows to put all the windows and the doors because they were all rotting in , you know , because the houses built er before the second world war and er what we did we put up the and in three months ' time , it in three months ' time my house went and we were moved , in September we started to sell , in January we 'd been living in the , in the new bungalow and then about three years later they built a row of bungalows on the other side where there should , should of been , they kept the land , it should of been shops , but then they changed their minds , they did , they did n't build the shops , but they built all these bungalows again on the other side , you 've been to my home , yeah , so the road that , over the road these bungalows were about three years later than ours and they were going down for thirty two thousand pound , and I bought mine for seventeen thousand seven sixty at six fifty , yeah |
| 19 | Ever since I started consultancy work in politics , I 'd been pushing for the use of this simple invention — a British one — but it was n't until after President Reagan used it in his address to the Houses of Parliament that our politicians felt it was worthy of notice . |
| 20 | Now she realised he 'd been hovering on the verges of her thoughts , just waiting for an opportunity to pounce . |
| 21 | We probably lost them on the Beltway , and they 'd been chasing round the Virginia countryside trying to pick me up … those things only have a range of about three miles . ’ |
| 22 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 23 | It could be the day you deleted the thesis you 'd been writing for the last year , or the time the system crashed while you were giving a presentation in front of a thousand people . |
| 24 | ‘ Actually , I 'd been hanging around the street for quite some time . |
| 25 | They knew she 'd been drinking on the way in . |
| 26 | I 'd just turned on to York Way when I spotted the two city gents who 'd been drinking in the pub . |
| 27 | 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 |
| 28 | Suddenly the penny dropped , and Meredith knew why he 'd been prowling about the airport like an angry lion . |
| 29 | She 'd been waitressing in the dining-room for breakfast and lunch . |
| 30 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |