Example sentences of "i had [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 2 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 3 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 4 | I was relieved for myself , as I had been dreading driving again so soon . |
| 5 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 6 | If I had been staying with you I … |
| 7 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 8 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 9 | It was a coincidence that the previous weekend I had been sorting through an old trunk of mine full of memorabilia at my parents ' home , and came across my membership certificate for the Tailwaggers Club , along with Tailwagger medallion . |
| 10 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 11 | North British duly obliged with the Birmingham-Glasgow on the Saturday , but dawn till dusk vigils did not produce the procession of A1 's , A2 's , A3 's and A4 's I had been hoping to see . |
| 12 | When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years . |
| 13 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
| 14 | Now I had been hanging back , attempting to develop some strategy . |
| 15 | Because of the track , navigation had been easy and I had been leaving my sextant in the Land Rover . |
| 16 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 17 | I relaxed those muscles I had been clenching . |
| 18 | Bodo and I had been watching a bodysurfing video starring Mark Cunningham , but when Ace found out I was writing some articles about the North Shore he insisted on an immediate full-scale press conference . |
| 19 | In all the years I had been watching him , he had , as far as I could tell , absolutely fuck-all interest in them . |
| 20 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 21 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 22 | He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages . |
| 23 | I presume neither Mr Baker nor Mrs Rumbold was aware that for over ten years I had been conducting a campaign to make creative writing a central feature of the English curriculum , and that in October 1983 I helped to organise a manifesto on this subject which was published in the Times Higher Education Supplement . |
| 24 | ‘ Labour members saw the letter I had sent and automatically assumed I had been misusing the Commons franking machine . |
| 25 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 26 | I had been complaining that one day I must become a good daughter again and go back home for a visit . |
| 27 | I had been dealing in coke to a very small circle of friends , not more than half a dozen . |
| 28 | I had been dealing with trivia but this was different . |
| 29 | I put down a bit less than I had been drinking . |
| 30 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |