Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [been] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I had been visited that morning by what was usually at this state of the term a rare inspiration , and was writing a poem of my own . |
| 2 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 3 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 4 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Among people in their fifties there is a marked sense that , " if only I had been born 20 years later I could have had a better time ! " |
| 7 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 8 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 14 | I had applied to continue full-time research following my degree course , but this had been turned down by my chief officers ; however , I had been told that assistance for part-time study would almost certainly be approved in view of the national policy of encouraging officers to extend their educational qualifications . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I had been offered three rehearsals plus some sessions with the singers . |
| 18 | Back in 1959 , I had been sitting one day in a Brighton coffee bar aptly named the Thieves ' Kitchen . |
| 19 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | She was always prepared to the utmost and if she felt she had been given good advice , then she took it immediately . |
| 22 | Another , a regular visitor to the Undercroft , presented a model of the King of Siam 's Royal barge , which she had been given 40 years ago , after service in our Bangkok Embassy . |
| 23 | She had been stabbed 50 times . |
| 24 | She had been stabbed several times . |
| 25 | She had been born ten years ago . |
| 26 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 27 | She would walk the ten-mile round trip over the Downs to Charleston without demur , striding out in an afternoon , often rapt in thought , puzzling over the next scene in the novel she had been writing all morning . |
| 28 | Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs . |
| 29 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 30 | She had been experiencing considerable feelings of grief about her husband and had been able to cry on occasions . |