Example sentences of "[verb] [pers pn] had [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 2 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 3 | Imagine you had been living on bread and water for three years and then someone put a large bowl of cherries on the table in front of you . |
| 4 | He had said he had been fighting with another man . |
| 5 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 6 | The sergeant saw her eyes were dim with sadness and he guessed she had been thinking about her former husband . |
| 7 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 8 | The man claimed he had been looking for his girlfriend when challenged by staff members . |
| 9 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 10 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
| 11 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 12 | ‘ Leith Everett , ’ she stated down the phone , and soon knew she had been living in a fool 's paradise these last few hours . |
| 13 | He came forward into the firelight then and she saw he had been sitting beside the range , in an old rocking chair which he had left tilting back and forth , to take the lantern from her , grasping her free hand in his . |
| 14 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 15 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 16 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 17 | Ellie ran upstairs , threw off her old blouse and skirt and her much darned stockings , and got hurriedly dressed in her Sunday best , yet another variation on the plain black dress with detachable collar and cuffs she had been wearing for as long as she could remember . |
| 18 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 19 | Mrs Hepburn said she had been living with her husband at the time of the alleged crimes but was now in the process of divorcing him . |
| 20 | Margo Hawes , of Horsforth , said she had been coming to the ballet for years . |
| 21 | Robyn took a sip and wished she had been listening from the beginning . |
| 22 | Mr Siddle , of Hesleden Avenue , Acklam , Middlesbrough , said they had been working on the operation the previous day and the pipe kept jamming when attempts were made to slot it into place . |
| 23 | A site has yet to be secured — although the Mountain View , California-based company said it had been working on the plans for some 18 months — and a choice will be announced within 60 days , according to Sun 's chief financial officer , Kevin Melia . |
| 24 | Buckby , who is also secretary of the Langbaurgh Schools Cross Country Association , said he had been trying for nearly ten years to have the rule changed . |
| 25 | He said he had been living with his parents in Fazakerley , and had been sub-letting the flat to another man . |
| 26 | Douglas Gray of Middleton in Teesdale said he had been complaining for over two years about undelivered letters and hit out at the ‘ uncaring attitude ’ of the Post Office in Darlington . |
| 27 | Mr Justice Johnson , who jailed the 37year-old Marquess for failing to pay £10,534 to his estranged wife Becky , said he had been acting in excess of his powers when he imposed the sentence . |
| 28 | Kasparov said he had been negotiating with the FIDE president , Florencio Campomanes , for several days to try to persuade him to transfer the federation 's rights to stage the championship to the PCA and make Manchester a ‘ transitionary ’ match . |
| 29 | My dinner companions were two Swiss nurses doing a world tour , and Roger Rasmussen , a pensioner front Queensland who said he had been travelling by train for 16 days non-stop . |
| 30 | Local people said he had been working on the site for two years and was very popular with them . |