Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [been] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been expecting this , for David Thomson had written of Woodbrook 's fall from splendour once the Maxwell family had succeeded in buying house and grounds from the former landlords , the Kirkwoods . |
| 2 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 7 | I had been washing all his hand . |
| 8 | Certainly if I had been doing all the restoration work myself it would n't have cost me so much because I am the cheapest worker in this outfit . |
| 9 | If you 're administering , you might as well administer something that is new and challenging rather than doing something I had been doing all my life . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 12 | Even before that , I had been recording some of the memories of the older generation of Bishop 's Castle residents , realising how many of them really did ‘ well remember ’ the early part of this century ; much of this material has been used in the ‘ RECALL ’ project at Stone House , whose members have contributed greatly to my understanding of that period . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | It was the prose at which I had been working all morning . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And since her birthday , she had been seeing more of Dionne than she had for years . |
| 19 | Tracey Hall of Style Academy said she had been seeing more males looking for jobs . |
| 20 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 21 | To hear Joan Marsdon talking of the PAT ( Pets as Therapy ) work she has done with her dogs Bewey , Chrissy and Beth , you would think she had been operating all her life . |
| 22 | And then Clelia sighed heavily , and looked sadly at Clara 's Japanese wooden egg puzzle , which she had been trying all this while to do , and said , " How very dull for you , to hear all about my affairs , but I do so like to tell the story of my life , it makes me feel as though things hive re ally happened to me , whereas otherwise they seem not to happen . " |
| 23 | She had been imagining this meeting for some time . |
| 24 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 25 | The thought came into her mind that , while she had been doing that , Alain had been here , going out on his splendid machine , coming home to talk to his mother and to her father . |
| 26 | Kay said I know , I said Kay you could n't begin to imagine what he does , and of course she said , and she had been doing that erm painting , Father came in and said something like oh you , you 've done a good job there , but she said he never said oh go over to the kitchen and get a cup of tea |
| 27 | If she had been paying more attention to his face she might have believed that his deeply shocked , anguished expression was not an act , put on for her benefit . |
| 28 | It was as if she had been waiting all her life to find this man , this moment . |
| 29 | Next day she called again , and then the ‘ witch ’ took her into the kitchen and showed her what she had been making all that morning — toffee-apples ! |
| 30 | She had been fighting this insidious physical attraction , trying to deny its existence ever since they 'd met . |