Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last night , standing on the deck of Devlin 's ketch as they rapidly approached the island , she 'd been thinking the same thing . |
| 2 | She guessed that Mike Booker would be calling curses down on her head because he 'd been hoping a one-two win at Estoril would clinch the constructors ' championship for Carlisle Flint , quite apart from putting Ace into an unbeatable lead . |
| 3 | Because he 'd been pursuing the same man for years . |
| 4 | I 'd been expecting a great hall with a giant round table , towering turrets , a moat and a drawbridge , but , of course , it turned out to be a ruin . |
| 5 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
| 6 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 7 | He also told police he 'd been copying a homosexual video tape . |
| 8 | Well , it had come about while he 'd been receiving the wet canvas treatment . |
| 9 | He 'd been fearing the worst but , no , the boy undressed him , and there it was standing up proudly , machinery in full working order once again , ready for action . |
| 10 | I 'd been applying a special cream to his ankles which was supposed to harden the skin , but it did n't seem to do much good . |
| 11 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 12 | Just for a second there , she 'd been uncovering a softer , more human side to the man . |
| 13 | Erm but the reality is that erm we would therefore need our budget to , in fact for the first half of this year , to have , well for the whole year , to have reflected the late delivery of the systems which would 've , if we 'd had that in the budget and we 'd been projecting the whole budget at say two point six , our budget figure would 've been somewhere in the region of another eighty to ninety thousand higher than it currently is for this first quarter . |
| 14 | Then they went back to camp and the only person there was Miguel the interpreter , who 'd been having a long conversation with one of the Indians and when he turned round all the other Indians had scarpered . |
| 15 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 16 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
| 17 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 18 | ‘ But then one night , under the covers — I was just getting older , I guess , but anyway — I was sort of reviewing the day , and I was thinking about school , and what we 'd learned , and we 'd been doing the Second World War , and I had n't liked the sound of this Hitler guy at all ; and I 'd asked dad , just to double-check , and — ’ |
| 19 | But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same . |
| 20 | She said she 'd been following a higher moral law . |
| 21 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |
| 22 | Mr Butler had been taking a collection-box home when he was attacked on the Tube , kicked in the face , kneed in the stomach , had his head banged against a door and almost strangled . |
| 23 | The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings . |
| 24 | Kochen maintained that DEC had been taking a worldwide census of ‘ hundreds of customers ’ recently to ascertain whether OSF/1-on-MIPS was a viable policy . |
| 25 | Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed . |
| 26 | Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave . |
| 27 | He had been serving a 20-year term in Nicosia 's central prison . |
| 28 | However , now that the papers had been reporting the recent news of her husband 's return from Australia — apparently determined to impress his name and tough personality on the City of London — it was obviously about time that she came to a decision about her future . |
| 29 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 30 | The headmistress and the governors of the school named were justly irate , for , they stated with concerted vehemence , no child had witnessed the recovery of the body of a murder victim from the canal : those children who had not been making stegosauruses out of old egg boxes had been learning an Ashanti war dance , and not one had been in the playground , which was the only vantage point from which body recovery would be observable . |