Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [adv] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had rather been hoping that I might see somebody I knew while I was in the town , but the only people I saw were old Mackenzie in the gun and tackle shop and Mrs Stuart in the cafe , yawning and fat behind her Formica counters and reading a Mills & boon . |
| 2 | ‘ To the preparation of both courses of lectures I gave far more attention than I had latterly been giving at Durham . ’ |
| 3 | I had even been accused , in a jocular way , by one of my senior officers , of operating a blockade of the Channel . |
| 4 | On the other hand , I had also been instructed in what it was to be a woman and how to function successfully in that role . |
| 5 | I had also been taking up quite a lot of time for public service , chairing the National Gas Consumers ' Council , and also , more relevantly , working under Richard Hoggart who was chairing the Advisory Council for Adult and Continuing Education , which had a remit to develop national policies for education as a process continuing throughout life . |
| 6 | Charlie did not know , at that time that I had also been hit in the chest and that my right lung had been punctured and had collapsed ’ . |
| 7 | I had also been having problems with my gut . |
| 8 | I had also been brought up on the story of the man who boasted that his ancestor had lost his leg at Waterloo , to which the response was ‘ Which platform ? ’ |
| 9 | The singing , the crying and the screaming — I thought I had already been killed and gone to hell ! |
| 10 | As it was , they were all staring fixedly at the entrance to the place , so I had already been inspected by them . |
| 11 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 12 | Simon got very excited when he heard that I had already been driven round the circuit by Brundle . |
| 13 | ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers . |
| 14 | 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 ! |
| 15 | I had finally been forced to apply a large pad of cotton wool held in place with an enormous length of three-inch bandage . |
| 16 | I have often wondered what my guest would have thought when I got back if I had told him I had just been beaten . |
| 17 | Charles Archer says , ‘ I had just been manning my gun and had sat down when we took the hit . |
| 18 | My mother I remember there was a sale of work going on at Palfrey church once and bef I had just been made apprentice at Wolverhampton and of course I got amongst the , they , when they came the , the Derby day they were all having a bet on it so I , I said to the give them half a crown , so he said you ca n't have half a crown and he said what do you want it for so I said they 're putting it on a horse was on this horse it won , so of course this sale of work was in great progress when I gets off the train at station and thought well I could n't understand in er Palfrey Church Hall , so she was there in all her finery and I said we 've won , we 've won she said shut up , shut up she said but erm no I think the biggest character in Caldmore was Father . |
| 19 | The timing was opportune because Ned was able to take a year out from his university course ; Matthew had just finished school ; Val got 6 months ’ leave of absence from her job ; and I had just been given early retirement . |
| 20 | I had just been reading in the Daily Minute about the string of beatings and manslaughters in Rosalind Court : the night before last a Jap computer expert and a German dentist had been found in a parking lot with their faces stomped off . |
| 21 | Leonard Cheshire and I were pilot officers together in No 4 Group at the beginning of the war ; he came from the dreaming spires of Oxford and I had just been commissioned as a pilot officer after serving a stint of five years as a sergeant pilot . |
| 22 | It was none other than the juvenile that I had just been defending . |
| 23 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 24 | I had just been talking with Jenny about her family , yourself and Mrs Connon , that same Saturday night . ’ |
| 25 | I was very tired after the long flight from London to Sydney and on the television show someone attacked what I had just been saying . |
| 26 | She said : ‘ I had just been saying that I was giving up the lotto , but my husband , Martin , encouraged me to keep trying . ’ |
| 27 | Questioned about why she had not sought help immediately after the alleged attack , she said : ‘ I had just been raped by a policeman , and I did not trust no police after that . ’ |
| 28 | I had secretly been hoping to see my colleague tortured a little . |
| 29 | I meant the people who gather by the sea and the noise and the colours and the smell of frying , but Syl had gone pale and sworn at me , using a word I had never been called before , and saying only a moron would say she did n't like the sea . |
| 30 | A feeling , wrote Harsnet , such as I have never experienced before , not so much of wishing I had never been born , as never been born as me . |