Example sentences of "early [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few days earlier I had been thinking of calling my doctor to assess the chances of having my vasectomy reversed in order to save my marriage to Karen . |
| 2 | When she had left Madam Lundy 's presence earlier she had been shivering with reaction , but that had now passed , leaving her calm , her options clear . |
| 3 | She proudly showed me the size 16 slacks she was wearing — eight weeks earlier she had been wearing size 22 ! |
| 4 | A few hours earlier she had been grinding wearily at Latin prose composition , when she had caught a shocked glimpse of her pinched , haggard face in the mirror . |
| 5 | Thirty minutes earlier she had been going up the stairs to read the newspaper on the toilet . |
| 6 | A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning . |