Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be walking [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although previously I had been walking only on weekends , I was now walking up to five times a week for half an hour at a time . |
| 2 | I 've been walking round with them like this all day . |
| 3 | She had been walking away from him towards the path that led to the gate and she turned her head and said , ‘ Did n't want to disturb you ; you looked so peaceful , asleep . ’ |
| 4 | She had been walking back along the track , head bent , deep in thought . |
| 5 | She and Jack , the boy she had been walking out with , were saving up so that they could buy the shop from old Mr Peabody , who wanted to retire . |
| 6 | Then he 'd been walking back to The Randolph when he suddenly felt he just could n't face his excessively sympathetic countrymen , and he 'd called in a pub and drunk a couple of pints of lager . |
| 7 | He 'd been walking home after celebrating starting a new job after nine months on the dole when he was set upon . |
| 8 | He was glad of the moon , for he had been walking away from the road and the quarry for a long time and had reached the rising , stony ground at the foot of the foin . |
| 9 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |