Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The conclusion could hardly be avoided that the Führer , who only a short while before had been speaking so confidently of imminent victory , had been mistaken . |
| 2 | For her to have gone off with him like that showed she must still care for him and yet she had been looking so adoringly at Fernando on the yacht . |
| 3 | Things had been moving so slowly in recent months that some Conservative MPs , like Robert Adley , the railway buff who chairs the Tories ' backbench transport committee , were convinced that privatisation was about to be dropped altogether . |
| 4 | Thirty of them had been drinking so heavily that they forgot to get off at Peterborough to catch their connection to Harwich . |
| 5 | Hindley Earnshaw should have been at Catherine 's burial yesterday , but he had been drinking so much that he could n't go . |
| 6 | Olive had been expecting so many horrors that hearing the question she almost laughed with relief . |
| 7 | She wondered who had been reading so recently on the carefully made bed , or if this fat book , which she now saw to be a collection of Sherlock Holmes stories , were a relic of the past summer , and the maid , or whoever cleared the house , was devotedly keeping her employer 's place . |
| 8 | When they had left the cinema , they found it had been raining so Yanto decided the standing position would be favourite . |
| 9 | The flight crews eagerly accepted the King 's hospitality ; our Tri-Pacer had been running so well we had little maintenance to do . |
| 10 | Despite their best efforts not to , they had been doing so since the giant rally at Sheffield a week earlier . |
| 11 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 12 | It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years . |
| 13 | Bodie was making eyes at the girl , and had been doing so for most of the hearing . |
| 14 | This was partly because Picasso , like Braque , was at this time working largely from memory ; indeed he had been doing so for the past three years . |
| 15 | They said yes , Andrus did come on Fridays and had been doing so for years . |
| 16 | The mood of the Parisians , when they heard the news for which they had been waiting so long , was recorded by a young Welshman living in a rented room on the Ile de la Cité . |
| 17 | On July 25th , 1908 , the rails forced their way into Denwood , and those who had been waiting so long and patiently considered that the prizes were theirs at last . |
| 18 | But they had been saying so for years , for more than a decade now . |
| 19 | For the past two days he had been saying so to all who would listen . |
| 20 | I was on the grass below the paddock when Ronnie 's car pulled off the road with a completely inexplicable failure : inexplicable in that Ronnie could find no reason why his car , which had been going so well , should suddenly come to a halt . |
| 21 | Everything had been going so well this time ; leaving Glasgow on Saturday anticipation had been high , Amanda had even been waiting for him on the pavement outside her flat . |
| 22 | He discovered that two Spitfires from 602 Squadron had actually met the ME110 head on — quite fortuitously — but it had been going so fast they had lost it by the time they 'd turned around . |
| 23 | Henrietta lay wrapped in a blanket , her teeth chattering , pale in spite of the tan she had been cultivating so carefully . |
| 24 | As he moved away from the tree it became apparent to Marian that between him and the trunk lay a substantial sack , and that it was this he had been defending so stoutly . |
| 25 | She had been feeling so very proud of her adventure in Horsfall Woods , which had turned out so well , not only for Rosalind but for the poor gardener . |
| 26 | ‘ And Steve had been playing so good at that point in his life . |
| 27 | But yesterday , as she nursed the baby she had been praying so many years for , she said : ‘ I never gave up hope . ’ |