Example sentences of "and [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I had been loading for the Major the last time that I was out shooting , the last time for me like . |
| 2 | Benjamin and I had been entertaining the group with a French madrigal , my deep bass a smooth foil to my master 's well-modulated tenor : a stupid little song about a maid who lost her wealth and her virtue in the great city . |
| 3 | Because of the track , navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover . |
| 4 | Bodo and I had been watching a bodysurfing video starring Mark Cunningham , but when Ace found out I was writing some articles about the North Shore he insisted on an immediate full-scale press conference . |
| 5 | It had been impossible to think of the future since John 's abduction , but 17 April was only weeks away and I had been discussing with Chris and Nick how we might mark it in some way . |
| 6 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It was a standing pose and I had been working at my canvas for a week , my problems were not nearly solved , and the painting still excited me . |
| 9 | Duncan and I had been talking for about ten minutes or more and swatting the increasing number of mosquitoes that always arrived in force at this time of the evening . |
| 10 | Alec and I had been climbing on his right-hand side . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Cardiff could see that he had attached a microphone of some kind to the metal container which still rested on the chair and which had been giving the so-called mysterious ‘ readings ’ . |
| 13 | Temple , 19 , in his first year in the ABA and who had been working in Fawcett 's butchers shop since 5.30 in the morning was over the moon with his hard earned win over Wales 's Barry Jones . |
| 14 | The reprieve had been so quick and sudden and she had been dreading the conversation so much … |
| 15 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 16 | But it would be only for a time and she had been thinking of asking the queen-dowager for permission to leave sanctuary and visit her mother . |
| 17 | Her main interest was in the time course of memory formation , and she had been using a variety of drugs , including agents which disrupt entry of ions such as potassium into the cell , and also protein synthesis inhibitors , to dissect out a series of phases , which she described as short- , intermediate- and long-term memory . |
| 18 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 19 | Cook had the afternoon off and she had been coming to grips with her occasional souffle , when the ‘ monster ’ had started its cacophony . |
| 20 | Kay said I know , I said Kay you could n't begin to imagine what he does , and of course she said , and she had been doing that erm painting , Father came in and said something like oh you , you 've done a good job there , but she said he never said oh go over to the kitchen and get a cup of tea |
| 21 | Somebody had apparently given her the matchbook and she had been carrying it around with her ever since . ’ |
| 22 | And she had been crying . |
| 23 | This letter had purportedly been written by his wife to him saying that he was not the father of the child and she had been having an affair with a man called Nigel , ’ said Mr Klevan . |
| 24 | I remembered being in the weight-training room with two club-mates , Trevor Wade and Clifford Mamba , a few weeks earlier and we had been discussing sprinting . |
| 25 | THE THIRD Test on the 1974–75 tour was at Sydney and everything had been going well . |
| 26 | Before she had come here , she had had her life sorted out and everything had been running smoothly . |
| 27 | She had filched a bottle of claret from her grandfather 's stock and they had been drinking it liberally . |
| 28 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 29 | I think my parents were rather surprised at my reaction , because I was their first child and they had been following child development textbooks that said that children ought to start making social relationships at two . |
| 30 | As I said I I had been told that er he was associated with and they had been planning ar armed robberies in the past . |