Example sentences of "[pos pn] mother [verb] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leith mentally shook herself to join in the conversation , realising that her mother had been speaking of the wonderful opportunities there were for world-wide travelling these days . |
| 2 | Night after sleepless night , her mother had been thinking about her , while Carolyn slept deep black sleeps and tried to keep her head empty . |
| 3 | During this time , Liz had taken much of the responsibility for the day-to-day running of the business , while her mother had been staying at home to look after her husband who was in poor health . |
| 4 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |
| 5 | In all the yelling and argument that followed Jo concluded that Andy the gardener was a starfucker in the literal sense of the term , for what else could her mother have been doing in the pool house at that time of day and why else would she have over-reacted the way she did ? |
| 6 | His mother had been singing with a company playing in a northern seaside town and he had lain on his bed in the boarding house , biting his nails , sunk under a terrible inertia . |
| 7 | When the young man was twenty he discovered that his mother had been boasting about how wonderful he was to all her friends . |