Example sentences of "it [vb past] [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been lashing down when they 'd gone in . |
| 2 | Delaney had a split second to realise that all along it had been setting up a trap for them . |
| 3 | Since the 1970s it had been fending off pressure from Scandinavia . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She said it had been going on for a few months . ’ |
| 6 | One thing Mam said suggested it had been going on for some time … |
| 7 | It had been bucketing down when she 'd left home that morning . |