Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 2 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 3 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 4 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 5 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 6 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 7 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 8 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 9 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 10 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
| 11 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 12 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 13 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
| 14 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 15 | The vote resolved a constitutional crisis which had been brewing for some months and which had centred around Slovak demands for far-reaching autonomy in most areas of policy . |
| 16 | Nevertheless the king had restored to government and policy-making an element of continuity and decision which had been lacking for many years . |
| 17 | It was in these unpromising circumstances that the great cholera controversy , which had been smouldering for some time , at last burst into flame . |
| 18 | It was particularly disappointing as the Scots had shown signs of a refreshing midfield arrogance which had been missing from many of their recent displays . |
| 19 | The Schuman Plan was based on ideas which had been circulating for some time but was devised in detail by Jean Monnet , who was in charge of France 's economic modernisation programme . |
| 20 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 21 | The trouble was , once you 'd been driving for that long , you drove right through your tiredness and out into a dreamland where only the road was moving . |
| 22 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 23 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 24 | With her spread hand she could pinch both of her temples and she 'd been sitting like this for a some time , holding out the light . |
| 25 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 26 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 27 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 28 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 29 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 30 | She had been feeling like this about Dr Russell for nearly a year . |