Example sentences of "had been [verb] a lot " in BNC.
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| 1 | The French manufacturers of the Exocet missile , Aerospatiale , had been done a lot of good to by the Falklands imbroglio and reported far better order books . |
| 2 | She had been thinking a lot about the conversation she and Leila had had back at Lazar 's , the talk of sky cities and escape . |
| 3 | This is something I had been thinking a lot about recently , using Psalm 37 as a basis . |
| 4 | He had been drinking a lot of beer , but he says he heard cries . |
| 5 | I had been getting a lot of this . |
| 6 | I picked one of them up and was struck to the heart , for it was obvious that he had been writing a lot of poetry , all of it , so it seemed to me , very good . |
| 7 | The girl had been seeing a lot of another young man , an estate agent called Jose , and that association continued after the marriage — long after ! |
| 8 | She had been reading a lot of self-help books and this was her conclusion . |
| 9 | Overstrain had brought on tuberculosis in 1939 and I had been having a lot of trouble with my eyes . |
| 10 | But she was aware that she had been preoccupied a lot of the time , all too aware of the mountain of work before her , and that it was rather a long time since she and her daughter had had any special outings together . |
| 11 | ‘ We had been playing a lot of country and blues songs before we started to play a couple of Hendrix numbers in the set and it just caught on so we added more , ’ said Slim . |