Example sentences of "we had been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 135 hp engine was used to operating on 80 octane fuel but we had been using 130 octane avgas . |
| 2 | Exactly where we had been swimming that morning . |
| 3 | Mr Cattell said : ‘ We had been expecting bad news but had no idea where the axe would fall . |
| 4 | We had been studying all of the information we had collected in an effort to reconstruct the events of that operation . |
| 5 | We had been waiting all Genesis for words like those . |
| 6 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |