Example sentences of "we had [adv] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we had simply been moving to another site we would just roll everything up and take it with us . |
| 2 | As the guns were still being fired , a Syrian tank came lunging up the shattered street where we had just been walking and entered the tiny square . |
| 3 | Christmas Eve brought us the good news that we had also been awarded Phase II of the East Merthyr Reclamation Scheme , known as Great White Tip . |
| 4 | At the time , we had also been commissioned by a Hess sheep owner to take a party of shepherds and dogs to North Rona , where we hoped to cull the resident sheep flock , selecting a number for sale in Stornoway . |
| 5 | Yes , we had both been searching for years for a place like this , well away from urban life with some land and outbuildings . |
| 6 | Back from Egypt for three months I was staying with my aunt in the Victorian villa in Tunbridge Wells in which we had both been born . |
| 7 | My friend , however , was adamant that we had both been abused in some way , though not sexually , which was my understanding of abuse . |
| 8 | ‘ Each of us was complaining about the spies ’ equipment with which we had both been issued . |
| 9 | It is only when one has haunted the markets of France and the food shops in the country towns and villages , watched the housewives doing their shopping , listened to them discussing their purchases at the pâtisseries and the charcuteries that one realizes how much less they are tied to their kitchens than we had always been led to suppose . |
| 10 | I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything . |
| 11 | For we had all been fooled , even the Lebanese themselves . |
| 12 | But after a week or two it became evident that the various bridgeheads were being held and advances being made ( at what cost we did not then know , but could only guess at ) , and that this was in fact the big event we had all been waiting for . |
| 13 | We had all been brought up to invest our hopes and future in the ‘ western way of life ’ and were learning to develop thick skins against the blatant institutionalized and individual racism we faced every day . |
| 14 | We had all been promised that the National Lottery money would be additional to what we receive and that there would been linkage to the funds we will obtain if all goes well and the Lottery Bill goes through Parliament in the next few months . |
| 15 | By which time the sexual revolution was also wearing a bit thin and became more to do with increasing women 's availability to men than the sexual autonomy and control over our own bodies we had all been promised . |
| 16 | One I remember vividly was when we had all been celebrating someone 's 21st birthday ( how young we all were ! ) . |
| 17 | As no man can serve two masters we had long been told no wise general tries to fight on two fronts . |
| 18 | Whichever is correct , we know that Magellan named the final cape Deseado , ‘ for we had long been desiring it ’ . |