Example sentences of "[pron] had [adv] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |
| 2 | I had n't been thinking about her that much , just a few times a day , and seldom imagined that I 'd glimpse her here or there on the street , on a bus , in the Superette , in the hospital , on a passing aeroplane five miles high . |
| 3 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 4 | Now if I had n't been poking around that shop and in an |
| 5 | Do you remember that evening — I had n't been working for you for very long — and you gave me a lift home ? ’ |
| 6 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 7 | I had not been thinking about him , I had not even seen him for months . |
| 8 | I had just been reading in the Daily Minute about the string of beatings and manslaughters in Rosalind Court : the night before last a Jap computer expert and a German dentist had been found in a parking lot with their faces stomped off . |
| 9 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 10 | I had just been talking with Jenny about her family , yourself and Mrs Connon , that same Saturday night . ’ |
| 11 | I had never been walking with flags before . |
| 12 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
| 13 | But peering more closely he could see that someone had recently been writing with a fountain pen . |
| 14 | The Wall Street crash of 1929 was severe enough , by itself , to reduce wealth in the American economy substantially , and thus to cut personal and business spending ( which had already been falling for two months ) . |
| 15 | The range of goods they were able to carry was welcomed in the area , as well as lunchtime sandwich facilities which had previously been missing in the neighbourhood . |
| 16 | Some of the most surprising issues of contemporary Britain arise in areas like Cornwall or mid Wales , which had previously been suffering from the decline of population and employment . |
| 17 | Returning to our historical outline and intimately connected with this new notion of female impurity , was the development of an increased rigidity in attitude toward and definition of function within the family group — something which had gradually been happening before the sixth century but which was accelerated and refined by the experience of the exile . |
| 18 | All she knew was that she was turning into McAllister again , Dr Neil 's pert and lively maid , and that this was the haven which she had unconsciously been seeking in the months since Havvie Blaine had assaulted her . |
| 19 | She had n't been reading at all but had been glancing out of the window not seeing the gracious gardens that surrounded Summer Lodge , but planning ways to help Craig when he came to her . |
| 20 | I felt she had n't been thinking about Charlie at all — except as an inspiration — but that , like me , she 'd been dwelling on what she might do in the world . |
| 21 | It was n't that she had n't been talking to Mandy , it was just that she had let her displeasure over that application be felt for an entire week now . |
| 22 | Gabriel said nothing ; she had not been looking for a life-story . |
| 23 | What decided her in the end was that the new job specification covered much of the work she had already been doing at Stoy 's for C&R and she was loth to let it go . |
| 24 | She knew all that and , more , she had actually been passing at the time . |
| 25 | She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected . |
| 26 | She had still been smarting from her unjust dismissal for ‘ over-familiarity with the management ’ at Ardis & Co , when she had wasted no time in squashing two men in particular at Vasey 's who had shown more interest in her than in their work . |
| 27 | To talk to them , you would think she had still been playing with toys . |
| 28 | And then , of course , six years ago she had still been reeling from the shock of Tony 's death . |
| 29 | ‘ It could be the killer was somebody who had just been passing by the apartment block . ’ |
| 30 | Standing there in shade , I observed the man and woman who had also been eating in the hotel emerge with their child . |