Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [be] [v-ing] about " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until very late the previous night I had been writing about Krakatoa and trials by Fire , and was deeply asleep when the cat woke me . |
| 2 | However , whilst searching through various books in my library , I chanced upon my copy of Folklore , Myths and Legends of Britain and wondered if there were anything mentioned about the Silbury Hill area that I had been writing about . |
| 3 | On the boat , I had been reading about the shooting of Fergal Caraher at the South Armagh checkpoint at Cullyhanna and now , in the darkness , as details of the story flooded back , I decided against pressing the buzzer . |
| 4 | I had been talking about it ever since our time out there . |
| 5 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 6 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 7 | She had been thinking about her future and discussing it with her parents , and all of them had decided to sell the shop . |
| 8 | The sergeant saw her eyes were dim with sadness and he guessed she had been thinking about her former husband . |
| 9 | It annoyed her even more that his continuing aristocratic demeanour disappointed her after the way she had been thinking about him . |
| 10 | She had been thinking about nothing else except this phone call for days now , wrestling with the conflict of emotions that were raging inside . |
| 11 | But already her mind was full of him , her triumph shrinking , slipping between her fingers like that future of silk and satin and feathered bonnets she had been dreaming about so eagerly an hour ago . |
| 12 | All through the first part of the interview — the crazy part , when she had been talking about seeing her son in the house — Hank had been telling the straight truth . |
| 13 | She had been talking about the rumble with the Daughters of the American Revolution , playing with Seth 's glasses , putting them on and taking them off . |
| 14 | My daughter thought no more of it than if she had been talking about the delivery of a letter because in her world the fax , like the video recorder , the personal computer and the microwave oven , has always been around . |
| 15 | I was interested in the thing in B A I E news which you had been talking about getting grants for people to do it |
| 16 | Last night , while sitting doing my ration of embroidery , I thought of what we had been talking about — the paying guest , and have come to the conclusion that you ought not to undertake such a responsibility as you have had such a difficult time in one way and another with sickness and trouble . |
| 17 | I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much . |
| 18 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 19 | Yet it was from Samsova , says Cohan , that the idea for A Midsummer Night 's Dream originally came : ‘ We had been talking about the company doing Forrest , one of my earlier works , when Galina mentioned The Dream . |
| 20 | Several analysts were confounded by the strong performance : only on Monday they had been muttering about how sustainable recent performance had been , and querying whether the share price had not run ahead of itself . |
| 21 | They had been working about a mile along a blind underground roadway , ending at what is due to be a new coal face , when the roof fell in 500 yards behind them . |
| 22 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 23 | It was obvious they had been talking about him . |
| 24 | It was the man they had been talking about at Christmas dinner . |
| 25 | For the last few hours he had been thinking about James and Kate and the rest of the Mollands , the Salpertons and the Redburns ; and it would not have shocked him if any or all of them who were still alive had turned up unannounced at Number 29 . |
| 26 | He had been thinking about the Doctor 's earlier words , that he should get used to obeying Henri , and had come to the conclusion that doing as he said no longer suited him . |
| 27 | He had been thinking about buying Lyn a kitten for her birthday , and as he came up to the great dolmen , had paused to look at it for the thousandth time , he had seen the bundle on the ground . |
| 28 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 29 | It was delicious to be close to Alain , to belong to him , to know that all the time she had been alone he had been thinking about her . |
| 30 | He said abruptly , rather as if he had been thinking about something quite different all the time Nick had been talking — ‘ She may be a little upset , I 'm afraid . |