Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] had [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I blurted out to Dominic how I had been feeling and to my astonishment and relief he said he felt the same — trapped and resentful . ’ |
| 2 | In October , in a similarly light-hearted vein , he recounted to Virginia Woolf how he had been sitting in the wings of the Westminster Theatre ( where Sweeney Agonistes was playing ) and , on another occasion , lighting fireworks in the company of John Hayward and W. H. Auden . |
| 3 | Alan Slade told the court how he had been approaching a road junction when he saw a man and a woman arguing . |
| 4 | And that was why everyone had been lying . |
| 5 | The idea of such a journey came about , I should point out , from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago , when I had been dusting the portraits in the library . |
| 6 | It was the music that had brought me in from the hall where I had been lying . |
| 7 | From the far edge of the terrace I could see down to where I had been lying only an hour or two before . |
| 8 | Suddenly I stepped out into her path from the gateway where I had been waiting . |
| 9 | I was returning from a hospital where I had been visiting someone , and I was last in a bus queue . |
| 10 | Yesterday , at 3.30pm , her neighbours realised why she had been smiling and waving once more , driving the green Subaru down the winding dirt-track to her Wiltshire home . |
| 11 | Often in the days when she had been touring , had not the same thing happened — and nothing thought of it ? |
| 12 | Perhaps , she thought it was because Mark had been there at the planning stage — Mark Bristow , the dynamic young advertising executive she had met and fallen in love with when she had been chasing jobs in the heart of Somerset ; Mark who , in spite of being English , had lived long enough in the States to absorb — and give off — some of the typically American blend of enthusiasm and energy . |
| 13 | Her mother 's breath had been sour as it always was when she had been drinking . |
| 14 | This second misfortune seemed to revive her memories of the earlier time when she had been carrying his child and had been given to understand that her husband had been simultaneously carrying on an affair with some young army chauffeuse . |
| 15 | Biting her lip Amabel reproached herself thoroughly and sincerely for not having forced her to wear those whalebone stays all night when she had been growing up . |
| 16 | It was neither bright , nor ornamented , nor ill-fitting , but she was such an unfamiliar sight out of boy 's breeches and working boots and fustian shirt that the company burst out laughing , and barracked and whistled and cheered and blew kisses at her on her long walk from the cottage where she had been hiding herself . |
| 17 | ‘ Listen , my dear , ’ she said to Alexandra , summoned flushed and impatient from the orchard where she had been settling her new charges in and attempting , as tactfully as possible , to exclude Murphy from the process , ‘ Mrs Langley says George is heartened beyond anything by your visit . |
| 18 | She then pointed to the recipe — Turkish Stuffing for a whole Roast Sheep — delighted by the disparity between the thought of this sheep and the few ounces of meat a week which begun jotting down recipes for this book after she had been sent back to England in 1945 , owing to her health , from New Delhi , where she had been living with her husband . |
| 19 | Fired by an intensely feminine and creative energy , she was spotted as a teenager by her first impresario , who snapped her up off the streets where she had been making her living and introduced her to the torrid cabaret life of the French capital . |
| 20 | Penelope hesitated , hardly remembering where she had been going . |
| 21 | ‘ That was my friend , Estelle , ’ Margrida said , coming out from the drawing-room where she had been answering the telephone . |
| 22 | She fetched herself a packet of sandwiches from the counter and then came back to where she had been sitting . |
| 23 | The little girl was on her own a few yards from the rug where she had been sitting eating some moments before . |
| 24 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 25 | Up by where we had been tipping the spoil was an area of hard-standing for a car , and some benevolent genius ( probably our builder friend ) had laid down sheets of open-weave chipboard over the soil , so the wheels would n't sink in . |
| 26 | They did n't fire a response in her , but it felt nice , like when they had been holding hands . |
| 27 | They were vague shadowy figures , rather like her own mother had been , except that she remembered them slightly better because , when she had been about eight years old , Granny Tremayne had driven her over to Newquay where they had been staying . |
| 28 | The two teams arrived in the northern capital from Beijing where they had been competing in the Asian Games . |
| 29 | Kevin Brown , Patrick Seymour and Lou Collins ran into the listening-post from the cots where they had been lying dozing . |
| 30 | The twins sprang up from where they had been sitting by Chola 's side and ran round the hearth to have a closer look . |