Example sentences of "but [pers pn] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might not be her number one priority but she had been organising people as long as she could remember . |
| 2 | He had looked after his younger brothers and sister , he had made sure that she always had enough money , but she had been hearing things of late that had frightened her . |
| 3 | But she had been battling against these odds for five hours , so perhaps her judgement was a little warped . |
| 4 | But she had been working er er as a |
| 5 | The 135 hp engine was used to operating on 80 octane fuel but we had been using 130 octane avgas . |
| 6 | Culdub Oakapple opened his mouth to say that acclaim was all very well in its way , but they had been hoping for something a bit more financial than that , but the two Gnomes on each side of him trod on his foot to stop him , because you could not always trust the Oakapple to be tactful . |
| 7 | But they had been saying so for years , for more than a decade now . |
| 8 | Lewis began his Narnia stories for children in 1949 , but he had been publishing fiction for adults since Out of the Silent Planet ( 1938 ) , a mixture of space-fiction and theology that he was soon to extend into a trilogy , ending with That Hideous Strength ( 1945 ) . |
| 9 | Item — On the night of March 18th , there was a fierce storm ; Alexander was not drunk but he had been drinking heavily . |
| 10 | Hindley Earnshaw should have been at Catherine 's burial yesterday , but he had been drinking so much that he could n't go . |
| 11 | But he had been drinking , and deep inside she knew he had been partly to blame . |
| 12 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 13 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 14 | But he had been coming home drunk too often and now she was determined to let him know her feeling about it . |
| 15 | He had looked older when she had seen him at St Petrock 's ; but he had been scowling then , and now he was looking quite friendly and interested — rather like James , who sat in front of them regarding them both with faithful brown eyes . |
| 16 | But it had been raining and the surface of the yard had been washed clear of any traces . |
| 17 | She would phone the police and they would go out of their way to search her garden and reassure her of their vigilance , but it had been going on for years . |
| 18 | He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around . |