Example sentences of "i had been [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years . |
| 2 | I had been dealing in coke to a very small circle of friends , not more than half a dozen . |
| 3 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 4 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
| 5 | I had been reading in Shelvocke 's Voyages , a day or two before , that , while doubling Cape Horn , they frequently saw albatrosses in that latitude , the largest sort of sea-fowl … |
| 6 | Evidently deciding that prudery was the better part of valour , I hotfooted it down to the bedroom again in time to witness half the ceiling crashing in flames on to the bed I had been sleeping in moments before . |
| 7 | By the time the rope went tight I had been standing in the same spot for nearly an hour and a half . |
| 8 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 9 | I had been shooting in the lonely hills in the north of England . |
| 10 | Cameraman Martyn Colbeck , our Russian and Tadjik helpers and I had been filming in the mountains and soda lakes of the eastern Pamirs , a few miles from the Chinese border . |