Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
| 4 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 5 | He also told police he 'd been copying a homosexual video tape . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She 'd been spending a few days ' holiday in Sicily , with her friends Penny and Devlin . |
| 8 | Just for a second there , she 'd been uncovering a softer , more human side to the man . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 13 | She said she 'd been following a higher moral law . |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed . |
| 19 | He had been serving a 20-year term in Nicosia 's central prison . |
| 20 | Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Berdennikov said on Sept. 14 that the Soviet Union and later Russia had been violating a 1972 treaty banning germ warfare , at least until March 1992 . |
| 21 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 22 | It was later compounded by the fall-out from a family explosion : on Roger Ackerley 's death in 1929 the son discovered that , first , his father had been maintaining a separate menage and that , second , the money had run out . |
| 23 | All the while , Julian Bailey had been maintaining a strong , gritty pursuit with the Nissan , and he was only 7secs behind Baldi 's second-placed Mercedes when he made his fuel stop early on lap 31 . |
| 24 | The miners had been seeking a 25 per cent pay increase , but the mine faced an uncertain future , with reserves expected to run out by 1996 . |
| 25 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |
| 26 | Their G P Felix Lusman had been using a faulty technique for the past five years . |
| 27 | For this search I teamed up with two young friends , both experienced detector users , who had been searching a nearby farm and thus knew the area well . |
| 28 | Ever since the two disastrous meetings she had had recently about Matilda , the first with the Headmistress and the second with the dreadful Mr and Mrs Wormwood , Miss Honey had been thinking a great deal about this child and wondering how she could help her . |
| 29 | Newley had been wearing a black , loosely knitted jersey , which was why Dougal had not noticed the wounds earlier . |
| 30 | He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt , which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out . |