Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had been travelling [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was alleged that at first the railway company denied that they had been travelling on the train at all , and it was indeed suggested that the two children were chance victims of the holocaust and they happened to be wandering by the railway at the time . |
| 2 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 3 | She had long since left the path and he had been travelling across rough land for some time — there was a high trail of dust behind the vehicle . |
| 4 | The time difference between London and Mexico City is six hours , and because we had been travelling with the sun , it was still quite high in the sky as we descended into the sepia haze that hung over the whole flat expanse of what had once been a great lake . |
| 5 | He wrote to his sister , who he had n't seen for a year , as he had been travelling round Europe before joining the Legion . |