Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been thinking just that for most of the long , aching , sleepless night . |
| 2 | We realised we 'd been depending too much on verbal instructions so we concentrated on producing written safety procedures , including training and planning . |
| 3 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 4 | And then I thought maybe I 'd been expecting too much . |
| 5 | But she 'd been smoking too much , as well . |
| 6 | He 'd begun to tell her an anecdote about the time he 'd been trying out some play in Brighton when he 'd very nearly missed the curtain because he 'd accidentally locked himself in his hotel-room , and how if it had n't been for his wife — ; realising his blunder he broke off and wanted to know if she minded his being married . |
| 7 | Anyway , she 'd been drinking too much , of late . |
| 8 | If I 'd been standing here fifteen years ago I 'd have been run over by now because there were four lanes of traffic running around here . |
| 9 | And as I continued to think about how we rarely get the measure of little children , I suddenly realized why they 'd been making so much din . |
| 10 | And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant ! |
| 11 | I 'd been going round all morning and never seen him . |
| 12 | apparently she does n't know why they sacked her she said , they sacked apparently something to do with she 'd been asking too many questions or something and but she |
| 13 | He 'd been working too hard to spend time with women , and the courting of his wife had been very proper and unexciting . |
| 14 | We 'd been saying how awful it was , how sorry we were for Connie . |
| 15 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 16 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 17 | She had been listening slightly spellbound to this smooth recital , and now she said , ‘ How far can you go ? ’ |
| 18 | It was noticeably warm , as if it had been hiding somewhere snug . |
| 19 | Well if he was there and you came along well that 's two people , so it 's not that secluded , okay , so we have to look on the positive side , if at the end of the day you 're going to get to a situation where , okay , you can see that the ordinary erm true blue course of events is just not gon na work , then it 's down to you , you have then got to make up your own mind what you 're going to do for the casualty and your own safety , okay , if somebody had been bleeding that long and you could n't of got help for them , what would your priority now probably be ? |
| 20 | ‘ In the concreted yard at the back of the flats at Water Eaton Road stood a light-weight , rubber-wheeled , aluminium wheelbarrow which one of the maintenance men had been using earlier that day . |
| 21 | The organization had started well enough , projected from the springboard of the prosperous 1970s , although the 1979–80 price explosion had an unexpectedly severe impact on oil demand , which had been looking particularly promising as 1979 was drawing to a close . |
| 22 | Robin-Anne , who had been looking very apprehensive , seemed to go aboard Wavebreaker rather unwillingly . |
| 23 | Beth had been surprised to know that Cissie herself had been thinking along those very same lines , and it only told her that she was right about Maisie 's children — they were growing up fast . |
| 24 | In fact , she had been thinking along those lines herself . |
| 25 | It lent to his words an air of impressive finality , as if he had been thinking out each point for the first time and had come to a halt . |
| 26 | At the next meeting , Mr E almost casually mentioned that he had been trying out one or two of last week 's ideas and that Dave seemed quite responsive to him this week . |
| 27 | they said they had been bringing in one of their nets , which had seemed very heavy . |
| 28 | For many years our shore-based rummage crews had been picking up increasing quantities of drugs from routine searches of merchant vessels within the ports , but often these smuggling attempts were " one off " jobs by crew members . |
| 29 | The beer he had been drinking steadily all day was now weighing heavily on his stomach . |
| 30 | Hindley Earnshaw should have been at Catherine 's burial yesterday , but he had been drinking so much that he could n't go . |