Example sentences of "[be] [v-ing] [adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , it must have been raining miserably when they went through here . ’ |
| 2 | It had been lashing down when they 'd gone in . |
| 3 | It had been bucketing down when she 'd left home that morning . |
| 4 | I had n't known how to explain what had been happening even if I 'd dared to . |
| 5 | A row had followed : he had been returning home when he had heard a noise . |
| 6 | I was carried ignominiously between two colleagues back to the car and greeted my wife with the sheepish grin she had been dreading ever since I took up the sport . |
| 7 | One exception has been Dean Hodgson , a neat and conscientious opener who has been picking up where he left off the season before last . |
| 8 | He was expecting a visit from the young woman he had been wooing assiduously and he had carefully orchestrated the evening so that all his housemates were out and he had the house to himself . |
| 9 | ‘ They had been living together but she said she was leaving him , ’ said Mr Ben Hemo . |
| 10 | Robert had returned from Italy where he had been serving ever since he had been commissioned eighteen months before . |
| 11 | We 're chatting away and I thought oh you 've got to come back and write down who said what . |
| 12 | I took it for granted I 'd just been lying there since I went out , and whoever had jumped me had made off and left me there . |
| 13 | She opened her mouth to fire a barbed reply , then , remembering where she would have been waking up if he had n't bailed her out , she bit her tongue . |
| 14 | How long had it been going then when you came ? |
| 15 | YOUR donations have been flooding in since we launched our Mirror Woman Rescue Chiswick Appeal in July . |
| 16 | He he had us all lined up after we 'd been riding round and he started enquiring how long we 'd been out of hospital . |
| 17 | You got here , are staying here where you wanted to be ! ’ |
| 18 | Members will want to know how Pat Keen has been getting on since she gave up her classes in the London area and moved to Newquay in Cornwall to look after her 94–year-old mother . |
| 19 | The two-year row has been rumbling on since it became clear the Ffestiniog Company had taken an interest in the project . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you know , Corbett , if you had insinuated what you are doing now before I became a friar , I would have killed you . |
| 21 | She 'd been letting on that she lived in one of those posh houses . |
| 22 | Amiss decided not to mention the dead bodies he 'd been coming across since he 'd got chummy with Jim Milton . |
| 23 | The flowers had dripped all down his trousers , his face was frighteningly lacking in colour , he was trembling , and his lips seemed to be sticking together as he tried to speak . |
| 24 | I did n't think he 'd be cooking tonight cos I knew they were n't shutting the |
| 25 | Just think you 'd be laughing now if they 'd spent that five grand on it |
| 26 | Australia , who had set Sri Lanka 522 to win after declaring their second innings at 513 for five , appeared to be coasting home when they took three wickets before lunch to reduce the touring side to 208 for six . |
| 27 | ‘ You could be picking up where he left off . |
| 28 | Bishop Farquhar said that it was a matter of history which part of that circle happened to be passing by as it cut through the life of the Edwards family . |
| 29 | So it might be possible for a 50-year-old with a heart condition to be acting reasonably if he turned down a job involving more stress and daily travel , whereas a 30-year-old executive with no personal problems who rejected the same offer might forfeit his claim to statutory redundancy pay . |
| 30 | ‘ Everything seemed to be going well and I looked like finishing well in the points when I went off , all on my own , towards the end . |