Example sentences of "was [pron] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ya I was I 've been thinking of trying to have a big delivery of something . |
| 2 | She would never find now whatever it was she had been looking for from life . |
| 3 | The famous sequence when the helicopters gather in the sky before the great attack has music with it — very familiar music ! — but , do you know , I was so gripped by the power of Coppola 's image , the helicopters , the music , that it was n't until many , many hours afterwards that I realized what the music was he had been using . |
| 4 | Leaving whoever it was he 'd been talking to , he started towards her . |
| 5 | He seemed almost overcome by her arrival , as if she 'd breezed through his mind and driven out whatever it was he 'd been planning to say . |