Example sentences of "we had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The forecast from Livorno has spoken of increasing winds and I laid out all the chain before we rowed ashore ( feeling curiously British and eccentric using oars among so many outboards ) for the pasta and wine we had been promising ourselves since mid-morning . |
| 2 | We had been assuming that it was the absence of the teacher which created the unique benefits of collaborative learning . |
| 3 | The 135 hp engine was used to operating on 80 octane fuel but we had been using 130 octane avgas . |
| 4 | ‘ We had been disadvantaging ourselves , ’ Mr Miller conceded . |
| 5 | I remembered being in the weight-training room with two club-mates , Trevor Wade and Clifford Mamba , a few weeks earlier and we had been discussing sprinting . |
| 6 | I joined the Welcome Group and one evening , not long ago , we had been discussing commitment and how we felt about it . |
| 7 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 8 | We had been conducting the German youths on tours of our favourite places in the city — to the bullring , the restaurants , the bars , the River Tormes , the Casa de Santa Teresa , the Antiguo Colegio Mayor de Iriandeses , San Martin ( where we were nearly locked in for the night ) and to the conventual church of San Esteban . |
| 9 | I 'm firmly convinced that if we had been operating under the old style of management , making a consensus decision , the clinicians would have got to their clinical representative and said there 's no way we want that — we want everything twice as big and gold-plated taps because patients will die , etc. , and their rep would say , " I 'm sorry but it 's completely unacceptable to my colleagues ' . |
| 10 | ‘ We had been escorting a convoy from Halifax to the UK and were ordered to leave the convoy , refuel in Reykjavik and take up patrol of the Denmark Strait , 150 miles west of Iceland . |
| 11 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 12 | We had been living in Canaan for ten years when Abraham started inviting me to his tent . |
| 13 | ‘ We had been drinking and went up to the bedroom . |
| 14 | We had been hoping to display it today . |
| 15 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 16 | " We had been hoping for something more dramatic " , one said . |
| 17 | It was partly with the new saw table and also he wanted to try and get more er sellable saleable product out of the slate , cos previously we had been throwing away quite a bit or giving it to and I think it really started as a family argument between him and his brother . |
| 18 | Exactly where we had been swimming that morning . |
| 19 | The low cliffs were the key to the puzzle : we had been searching too far north . |
| 20 | ‘ For years we had been trying to lower and streamline the bonnets of front-engined cars and the mid-engined configuration allowed us to obtain an extremely low nose , deeply recessed between sculpted front wings that sloped down to the headlights , which were contained in a plexiglass fairing to continue the line . |
| 21 | On the debit side we have dropped one day on the calving interval to 376 days , although not a disaster we had been trying to improve that but our heifers are calving at 28 months instead of two years three months . |
| 22 | We had been trying to understand the teacher 's purposes and actions in enabling successful collaboration to take place . |
| 23 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 24 | On the afternoon of the second day , we put one of the Harris 's hawks on a creance , as we would have if we had been training it , and tried a spot of flying . |
| 25 | ‘ It did n't hurt too much because we had been training twice a week for over two months . |
| 26 | We had been reading the poems of a Greek poet in French translation together . |
| 27 | Mr Cattell said : ‘ We had been expecting bad news but had no idea where the axe would fall . |
| 28 | We had been expecting a much harder game but the Welsh were never in it , thanks to our forwards ’ control . ’ |
| 29 | And in understanding the old picture so vividly , he has prepared us to appreciate , and to understand , many things which we either could not previously have hoped to understand , or which we had been looking at with half-open eyes . |
| 30 | We had been looking for tasks that were : |