Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [be] writing [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For about a year , since the summer before last , in fact , I had been writing to her and she to me and , because of the distance and something else I have n't been able to put my finger on ( maybe a need for excitement ) , the letters had become more and more sentimental , more and more loving , more and more like proper love letters . |
| 2 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 3 | Although Eliot considered this idea a good one , especially in view of the articles I had been writing for the New English Weekly ( for example , ‘ Italy must Choose ; and ‘ An Open Letter to Ansaldo ’ , which Mairet had forwarded to the spokesman in question and also to the Vatican ) , he felt that such a book issued in time of war , would need official backing . |
| 4 | Until very late the previous night I had been writing about Krakatoa and trials by Fire , and was deeply asleep when the cat woke me . |
| 5 | However , whilst searching through various books in my library , I chanced upon my copy of Folklore , Myths and Legends of Britain and wondered if there were anything mentioned about the Silbury Hill area that I had been writing about . |
| 6 | It was wild and erratic , as though she had been writing under severe emotional strain . |
| 7 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
| 8 | It was a kind of verse at which he himself excelled — there are those who say that it is to be found just under the surface of some of his apparently " serious " poetry — and Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats has the spirit , if not the content , of the Bolovian stanzas which he had been writing since his early twenties . |
| 9 | In October , following a long silence , he finished two more of the autobiographical letters he had been writing for Tom Poole , providing in one of them , the most deeply-felt of all , his loving recollections of his father , and an account of the stormy night by the River Otter when he had almost died . |
| 10 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 11 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 12 | He had been writing at the big desk , and had come round it to examine the patient . |
| 13 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
| 14 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |