Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was strength and an inner confidence reflected in those steady grey eyes that she suddenly realised were subjecting her to a thorough appraisal . |
| 2 | The texture of his voice was unfamiliar , and his face , when Eochaid glanced up , was drained with some sort of force which Eochaid suddenly saw was consuming anger . |
| 3 | It occurred to her that in any other circumstances the only description for what she and Dr Neil constantly did was flirting . |
| 4 | I hope that that demonstrates that the persistence of my hon. Friend has , if nothing else , at least found the receipt that hitherto had been missing . |
| 5 | Clearly , much had been going on behind the scenes , probably accounting for the delay referred to earlier . |
| 6 | Something inside had been hoping against all logic for a different answer . |
| 7 | She understood she was standing on the pavement with people walking past , the traffic rushing up and down had been standing there , stock-still , for how long ? |
| 8 | A standard rumour was that someone the story-teller knew personally had been hitching a lift one dark night . |
| 9 | Everyone downstairs had been gawping at her . |
| 10 | The first show we ever did was opening for Living Colour , and we 've just done a mini-tour with Adrian Belew 's band . |
| 11 | The only worry Mum ever had was getting enough to go round . |
| 12 | But one of the happiest jobs I ever had was working in a place called Lonsdale Sports . |
| 13 | Kiraly had been sitting as an independent member of the Országgyülés ( National Assembly ) , having first been elected in 1985 as a radical member of the then ruling Hungarian Socialist Workers ' Party ( HSWP ) . |
| 14 | No , what she found so overwhelmingly infuriating was that when he had enquired tactfully , some might say , whether she was tired , he clearly had been expecting her to say a polite ‘ yes ’ so that he could then suggest that she had an early night . |
| 15 | Despite the fact that it was in the open air , the roof held in some of the smoke , which Charity now felt was reaching killing proportions . |
| 16 | And one which we o often overlooked was dealing |
| 17 | For a shocked second she was very aware that this was the mouth that only hours before had been kissing her , making her feel things she had never felt . |
| 18 | The first pilots to send Luftwaffe bombers spiralling down to crash into the sea were boys , auxiliary pilots who until a few months before had been flying antiquated Gloster Gladiators . |
| 19 | The conclusion could hardly be avoided that the Führer , who only a short while before had been speaking so confidently of imminent victory , had been mistaken . |
| 20 | There was the Bishop of Limerick defending the Easter Rising , a man who thirty years before had been speaking out against resistance to civil authority . |
| 21 | The breeze which before had been cooling the morning , dropped now and the lane grew loud with bees and heavy with the scent of summer . |
| 22 | In the bright mid-morning light he looked , standing there , rather commonplace and even ugly — so thought Alice , who a few moments before had been melting in a familiar ecstasy of admiration for him . |
| 23 | Toby Tobias was quickest away and Desert Orchid could find no more , but the race was far from finished , for as Mark Pitman on Toby Tobias made for the winning post Graham McCourt urged Norton 's Coin to a final effort , and as the two jockeys , whips swishing , pushed their courageous mounts up the hill the cheers from the stands which moments before had been tuning up for another Dessie triumph lapsed into a disbelieving murmur : this was not the right script at all . |
| 24 | The Frenchman from the tourist police the day before had been sitting opposite the victims . |
| 25 | One is left wondering whether it was a dream or one really had been listening to a man whose clothes and surroundings were obviously of little importance but who knew more Latin and Greek than one ever had , could quote the classics and poetry , would have one lost in the depths of philosophy , someone who was probably in a Gaelic world of his own and was translating into English for the benefit of his listener although the learning had largely been gathered in that language . |
| 26 | As she looked in her cupboard , trying to control her rising temper , she realised she really had been neglecting her wardrobe — well , certain aspects of it , she told herself as she pushed the smart business suits to one side . |
| 27 | Her chest ached sharply , too , just as though someone really had been hitting into it . |
| 28 | Huge scaly legs , moist , glistening , with some slimy covering that she instinctively knew was giving off the putrid smell . |
| 29 | We ate so much of it , it was so marvellous , that we hardly wanted the sausage and the ham , noticed only in passing that the wine was n't up to much , and that the eggs in the omelette which presently appeared were spanking fresh and buttercup yellow — in the French countryside one takes that for granted . |
| 30 | There was a fight of some kind going on to my left ; all the people who a minute ago had been fleeing into the bush were just as suddenly pouring back . |