Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be [v-ing] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It jolted me into making the decision to quit , but I 'd been moving that way for a long time . |
| 2 | They were large as life recreations from the EA Hockey game I 'd been playing all week . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'd been growing that beard for 10 years and had grown quite accustomed to it , ’ says the now clean shaven Chris . |
| 4 | Ben said that he 'd heard I 'd been having some problems and asked what they were . |
| 5 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 6 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 7 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
| 8 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 9 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 10 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 11 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 12 | I was so relieved to hear this as I had been canoeing many times before and so could remain warm and dry while watching many of the younger cadets freeze to death . |
| 13 | I had been repelling all visitors with even the slightest suggestion of a cold but had no power over the internal workings of his cancer . |
| 14 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 15 | Certainly nobody had been taking any notice of this one — but then , had n't he been playing very badly , anyway ? |
| 16 | It is understood that the deal had been held up by the Bank of England which had been seeking some form of ‘ comfort ’ from Bank of Edinburgh 's largest minority shareholder , Scottish Amicable , with 39.2 per cent , effectively asking it to stand behind depositors and take a more active role . |
| 17 | Indeed , objects used for inspiration by the artists in the nineteenth-century Paris studios were from parts of West Africa which had been making such images for European consumption for centuries ( Donne 1978 ) . |
| 18 | It was only a good six minutes later that this squadron of battleships , which had been steaming some 8km/5mls behind Beatty in his flagship Lion , turned ; this delay left the squadron about 16km/10mls behind Beatty 's battlecruisers . |
| 19 | used to have to w run the old b back the old horse and cart into the co crew yard which had been standing all year with about umpteen beasts on it , trampling it down , more straw , trample it down , more straw , trample it down . |
| 20 | At last she could admit honestly to herself that some part of her had been waiting all evening for this moment when her own self-imposed barriers would be swept away . |
| 21 | How would you feel if you 'd been paying this money for ten years and then you lived , you lived after than , and you got nothing for it basically . |
| 22 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 23 | She 'd been buying some sweets at a local newsagent minutes before the accident . |
| 24 | I suspect she 'd been following that fool of a carrier . ’ |
| 25 | As she flicked over memories of the day — embracing in the cold silken water , under that mysterious layer of white mist which cut off the sky above yet gave clear vision to the other side , a quarter of a mile away — the sense of wicked escape , as they laughed together in the empty lunch-time pub … she decided that she would tell her mother she 'd been working both Sundays . |
| 26 | Are there any naked nuns in the film ? ’ — with cool , defiant charm , while George Harrison , who 'd been doing this sort of thing since his Beatle days , kept the whole thing on an even keel with his Liverpudlian wit and wisdom . |
| 27 | But I bumped into Chris who 'd been doing some session work with Steve ( Buzzcocks ) Diggle , who was looking for a guitar player to do a few gigs , and Chris kind of trapped me into that . |
| 28 | The woman who died was driving this pick-up truck when it hit an ambulance travelling in the opposite direction along the A417 , half a mile out of Cirencester . |
| 29 | Nothing she damaged was making any difference . |
| 30 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |