Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 2 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence . |
| 3 | And he 'd known it , all the time he 'd been trying to bed her . |
| 4 | Maybe they 'd been meeting in secret for a while . |
| 5 | One Saturday night he 'd been drinking in front of the telly when he decided to phone Sheila 's place . |
| 6 | She 'd been counting on rescue services arriving with the dawn , but maybe they would n't be coming after all . |
| 7 | I thought that , instead of speaking from his notes that he 'd been speaking from year after year , he was reassessing what he was doing . |
| 8 | She 'd been longing for peace and quiet so that she could get on with her carving , and , now that she had it , was standing here like a loon ! |
| 9 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
| 10 | This time last night she 'd been lying in Dane 's arms , feeling safe , secure , at peace with the world for perhaps the first time in her troubled life . |
| 11 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |
| 12 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
| 13 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 14 | The company had wanted him to transfer to London , in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school . |
| 15 | Claus Toksvig , then a Danish broadcaster based in London , had been reporting on unemployment in Britain . |
| 16 | There had been shelling in Casa Tampica and she had left her hair dye in the Holton Hotel . |
| 17 | The Thing had been listening to radio and television and had found the place the going-straight-up Shuttles went from . |
| 18 | Puzzling — since it seemed that Yorke had been listening to information he 'd specifically asked for . |
| 19 | Women 's Aid and the Domestic Violence Working Group — a body composed of those encountering the results of domestic violence — had been calling for clarification in the law since the decision . |
| 20 | There was no comfort either in Mr Ben Ali 's speech for the other opposition parties which , after their poor results in the elections , had been looking for government help . |
| 21 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 22 | This time his powers of concentration were not helped by the fact that on a hot and humid Sunday afternoon in the Bois de Boulogne he was feeling awful : he had been wasting in order to ride Beaver II at nine stone ten pounds later in the afternoon , and was severely debilitated by a stomach upset which had kept him up all night . |
| 23 | Like hundreds of other child victims of the bloody Yugoslav war , Natasha had been sheltering from gunfire in the Sarajevo orphanage , when Mike found her . |
| 24 | Earlier Rangers had been thinking of survival rather than victory as for the third weekend in a row the Glasgow giants found themselves seriously threatened by a club from the bottom half of the table . |
| 25 | This discrepancy could be explained if North America and Europe had been moving with respect to each other as well as with respect to the magnetic pole . |
| 26 | He had been moving towards resignation since being routed by Mr Smith in the July leadership election . |
| 27 | He had been fading from importance for some time , had been replaced as Unionist leader in the Lords by Curzon and was not a minister under Lloyd George . |
| 28 | Mrs Grandison followed her apprehensively into one of those ubiquitous tea-shops which cater for the multitudes of office workers and others who want a cheap meal at any time of the day , and which , excellent though they are , can hardly be compared with the restaurants Mrs Grandison had been hoping to lunch in . |
| 29 | In a totally uncharacteristic and confused way , she had been hoping against hope that Mrs Bennett would settle down in Hillmarden and come to terms with what she had called ‘ all them dark months ’ . |
| 30 | Er , my experience is slightly different when erm when I had been trying to sort of recover , I did n't , I did n't feel as if I 've get any help from professionals that I approached . |