Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the same , he wished he 'd paid a little more attention to what had gone on when he 'd been leaving the depot so that he could have spotted when they carried out that trick with the form he was supposed to have dropped . |
| 2 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 3 | In the end , just to save myself from socking him one , I had to pretend I 'd been using the term ironically . |
| 4 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 5 | He spread the trousers carefully on the large deal table , put the towel with which he 'd been drying the luncheon dishes carefully on top of the faded tweed , smoothed it into place and began to poke out the creases with an old iron . |
| 6 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 7 | They 'd been sharing a cell for the last two years . |
| 8 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 9 | They 'd been watching the site for some time . |
| 10 | Eye to the crack in the door , Jezrael saw the girl 's own guilt palm the cuber as though she 'd been watching the security scanner all along . |
| 11 | And er he did n't blame me one bit of doing that because we 'd been getting the run around . |
| 12 | He 'd been adjusting the driving mirror and he 'd only taken his eyes off the road for a moment . |
| 13 | ‘ They 'd been raiding the school at the end of Dwyer Street . ’ |
| 14 | She thought she knew what might have been on his mind , because he 'd been writing a letter in the Lounge . |
| 15 | Everything in bilingual Canada was written in both English and French and I realized that since my arrival I 'd been reading the French quite easily . |
| 16 | ‘ He 'd been drinking a lot . |
| 17 | He chuckled to himself , put down the cup he 'd been drinking the water from , wiped his lips . |
| 18 | My local bank manager said that means she 'd been renting a deposit box . |
| 19 | ‘ But then you discovered how , for two years , I 'd been concealing the knowledge of your son from you , ’ Ashley broke in harshly , ‘ and telling me went out of the window . |
| 20 | He 'd been telling the truth . |
| 21 | ‘ Perhaps I should sell the place and be done with it , ’ he said with an abruptness that showed he 'd been considering the idea for some time . |
| 22 | ‘ If she 'd been wearing a helmet , she might have lived , ’ says Officer Carmine Menchel , who visited the scene later . |
| 23 | He felt that if he 'd been wearing a gun , this man would have known . |
| 24 | as if she 'd been wearing a coat of many many colours , and , beached on the desert island shore of Pity Me , had shredded the damn shrunken thing . |
| 25 | Now you can work out for yourselves that if you 'd been betting a pound on each of those horses you 'd have finished up substantially down . |
| 26 | Evidence from police and forensic officers said Mrs Prescott looked as if she 'd been sewing the hem of a curtain , when she was shot at close range in the back of the head . |
| 27 | He 'd been fighting the prophet , but every time he 'd laid hands on the man , he 'd changed shape , become a cloud , a venomous snake , a wildcat , a mad woman . |
| 28 | Springsteen was out but there were tell-tale signs that he 'd been ruling the roost and no evidence that he was pining for my return . |
| 29 | He 'd been making a living , that was all , and now he was going to swing for it because the fucking book would n't fucking burn ! |
| 30 | I 've been keeping my eye on her for a while , but it seems she 'd been returning the favour without my being aware of it . ’ |