Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] be [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience . |
| 2 | I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London . |
| 3 | I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’ |
| 4 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 5 | I 'd been getting away with it for ages . |
| 6 | I did n't have a big name in the business as I 'd been concentrating just on working , so I was n't a star and could n't force through any changes . |
| 7 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 8 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |
| 10 | It was not until eleven years later that I returned to England and saw Biddy and Joe again , although I had been writing regularly to them . |
| 11 | In Doncaster over Christmas , I had been thinking constantly about criticizing the Government . |
| 12 | To dwell on the Caledonian Canal for a moment , this was my first of many passages through which is for me the most beautiful of all the canals — the ultimate in inland waterways , so I had been looking forward to it immensely . |
| 13 | I had been looking forward to going to what I called ‘ big school ’ . |
| 14 | I am disappointed that none of those hon. Members is in his place , because I had been looking forward to their contributions and should have liked to address the odd remark to them , but I shall do that in any event . |
| 15 | As I had already been rock-climbing I decided it was time to take part in the activity which I had been looking forward to , canoeing ! |
| 16 | Although previously I had been walking only on weekends , I was now walking up to five times a week for half an hour at a time . |
| 17 | I heard this with embarrassment , remembering how terribly bored and miserable I had been sitting there on a long hot afternoon , hardly understanding a word as chiefs and elders talked to our delegation in local dialect . |
| 18 | In fact , I had been heading resolutely towards a myocardial infarct for at least 15 years . |
| 19 | Now that I 'd definitely decided to welcome the baby , I 'd have to start planning with a bit more efficiency than in the past , when , so far as one could see , I had been working vaguely on the basis that God would provide ; and why the hell He should in a case like this was probably more than even the most devout believer could have told me . |
| 20 | I had n't planned that and what funds I had were coming here to the States . |
| 21 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 22 | It was a planned pregnancy , and she 'd been working hard at getting her blood sugar under control , but that often ca n't be done overnight . ’ |
| 23 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 24 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 25 | A friend said yesterday : ‘ What she did is eating away at her . |
| 26 | Breeze snatched up the first thing she could find — her own mackintosh , which she had been wearing earlier in the day — and with one swift movement covered that smouldering sleeve with the thick material . |
| 27 | Her face burned as she realised that while she had been soaring naïvely in previously unthought-of heights of bliss Luke Hunter had just been mentally carving another notch on his bed-post . |
| 28 | She was suddenly aware that she had been looking forward to her new life in Portugal far more than she had realized . |
| 29 | She had been looking forward to this moment , for it promised a long-sought revenge : a revenge not only against her husband for the bitterness and suffering he had caused her , but also against the harlot , Hannah Gristy , whose lithe body and brazen looks had tempted young Gregory into fornication nearly forty years before , and of whom this insolent little slut was so painful a reminder . |
| 30 | And although she 'd been sad to be leaving her family behind , she had been looking forward to a few weeks ' holiday and then — a new job , a new life . |