Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [been] travel [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It felt as if she had been travelling for days instead of only one , on and off , and she arrived as dusk was falling . |
| 2 | For the last few minutes , she had been travelling in parallel to her previous route . |
| 3 | The time difference between London and Mexico City is six hours , and because we had been travelling with the sun , it was still quite high in the sky as we descended into the sepia haze that hung over the whole flat expanse of what had once been a great lake . |
| 4 | It was alleged that at first the railway company denied that they had been travelling on the train at all , and it was indeed suggested that the two children were chance victims of the holocaust and they happened to be wandering by the railway at the time . |
| 5 | The covers were very worn , as if it had been travelled about a good deal , and on the fly leaf was written ‘ Journal 1841 ’ and then , in a different coloured ink , ‘ And 1842 ’ and then , below that , carefully , ‘ Emily Brent ’ . |
| 6 | It had been travelling from Libya with the last of five arms shipments for the IRA . |
| 7 | He had been travelling for eight years and was now heading south towards Delhi , the capital of the Sultan of Hindustan . |
| 8 | She had long since left the path and he had been travelling across rough land for some time — there was a high trail of dust behind the vehicle . |
| 9 | My dinner companions were two Swiss nurses doing a world tour , and Roger Rasmussen , a pensioner front Queensland who said he had been travelling by train for 16 days non-stop . |
| 10 | He wrote to his sister , who he had n't seen for a year , as he had been travelling round Europe before joining the Legion . |