Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 2 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 3 | Milly said cos we 'd been talking about this all day and they , the children had been saying to John you gon na have a picture of yourself in Where 's the Wally thing ? |
| 4 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 5 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 6 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 7 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 8 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 9 | Five minutes later he came in trying to tell tell us jokes and each time he 'd been paddling through this brake fluid and the carpet is just you know , brains |
| 10 | So it was obvious that my father had been thinking of this long before . |
| 11 | The conference of 1923 was the culmination of long planning on the part of Lord Darlington ; indeed , in retrospect , one can see clearly how his lordship had been moving towards this point from some three years or so before . |
| 12 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 13 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 14 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 15 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 16 | Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece . |
| 17 | Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side . |
| 18 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 19 | ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons . |
| 20 | Anne had been dwelling on this , even as the queen-dowager , together with the prince , princesses and Joan , waited with a mixture of feelings — hope , doubt , impatience and irritation — for her reply . |
| 21 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 22 | Had been dreaming about this for a long time , he wrote . |
| 23 | She had been feeling like this about Dr Russell for nearly a year . |