Example sentences of "[that] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |
| 2 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 3 | He was overlooking the fact that I had been living with Jean-Claude for more than three years . |
| 4 | However , whilst searching through various books in my library , I chanced upon my copy of Folklore , Myths and Legends of Britain and wondered if there were anything mentioned about the Silbury Hill area that I had been writing about . |
| 5 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 6 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 7 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 8 | I checked through my notes to make sure I had the correct dates , aware I had the correct dates , aware that I had been finding it hard to concentrate . |
| 9 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 10 | I knew there were other bags of cubes in the kitchen refrigerator , so , feeling that I had been walking the train for a lifetime , I went along through the dining room to fetch some . |
| 11 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 12 | Booking into the hotel for another night , Kelly was told that someone had been trying to call her . |
| 13 | But they adamantly refused to listen when I insisted that someone had been trying to kill me . |
| 14 | He told Ballater that someone had been breaking in . |
| 15 | He would be certain , positive , that he was about to walk Into a tree , or a post or sign he had n't noticed ; even that somebody had been watching from behind a tree and was about to leap out and punch him hard on the nose . |
| 16 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
| 17 | She could n't really remember anything , only that she had been knitting and then she had woken up in this bed with her nosy , bossy sister sitting beside her . |
| 18 | ‘ I learned from her diary that she had been seeing quite a lot of — of a man . |
| 19 | Even when the results came through and the babies were exchanged in a dramatic midnight meeting , Marie found it difficult to believe that she had been nursing the wrong child . |
| 20 | And she did admit that she had been skipping things , you know , and erm I hoped it would go on alright , that was a couple of months ago . |
| 21 | Surely he was n't implying that she had been trying out her feminine wiles on Sam ? |
| 22 | The court 's heard that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
| 23 | A Lebanese chauffeur who denies Kim 's manslaughter has told the court that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |
| 24 | As Lou 's story progressed , however , it emerged that she had been living with Rick for several months and had high hopes of becoming engaged to him herself . |
| 25 | Dyson remembered , at the sight of her silently writing , that she had been nagging him . |
| 26 | She said in a rage that she had been thinking it was rough on him to belong to a society with a theology of gambling . |
| 27 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 28 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 29 | He was inclined to believe her : her anger was a natural reaction to his accusation that she had been prying into data which was not her concern . |
| 30 | For instance when in a dream she was conducted by me over a market garden in Aegina , one could guess that she had been reading Angus Wilson 's The Middle Age of Mrs Eliot , in which a market garden figures ; or when I dreamed of a detective novel by her , with a detective bearing her own name and very uncharacteristically dressed there were signs of my addiction to the detective novels of Gladys Mitchell . |