Example sentences of "[vb past] be [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the ribbon of blacktop offering a new perspective , he realised that the vortex within which they fled was turning away from the mountains . |
| 2 | I 'm glad you do n't try to be what you are n't , ’ he said gravely , beckoning the waiter who 'd been leaning wearily against the door-jamb . |
| 3 | We 'd been drifting apart until then , and that talk brought us right back together . |
| 4 | I 'd been looking forward to telling Charlie how depressed and lonely I 'd been since we moved to London . |
| 5 | I 'd been looking forward to seeing you both , and I had wanted to discuss that Unesco thing with you . ’ |
| 6 | Was it still remotely possible that , in spite of everything , he 'd been looking forward to having her here with him as his wife ? |
| 7 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 8 | They 'd been living together for many years . |
| 9 | I 'd been getting away with it for ages . |
| 10 | I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'd been beavering away on Imaginary for a while but we never got the success we deserved through limited resources . |
| 12 | He 'd been sailing close to the wind for years and everything was just about to blow up in his face . ’ |
| 13 | He had a feeling that they 'd been waiting right from the start of the trip . |
| 14 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 15 | When we left the headman 's house we were joined by a group of young boys who 'd been waiting outside with their dogs , and by other men from houses that we passed along the way . |
| 16 | He 'd been waiting there for me , I concluded . |
| 17 | This made him aware of how much he 'd been missing before in the cold , masculine environment of the academy . |
| 18 | I did n't have a big name in the business as I 'd been concentrating just on working , so I was n't a star and could n't force through any changes . |
| 19 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 20 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'd been working solidly for eighteen months , ’ she pointed out . |
| 22 | It was a planned pregnancy , and she 'd been working hard at getting her blood sugar under control , but that often ca n't be done overnight . ’ |
| 23 | He looked as if he 'd been Lying there on his stomach for quite a while . |
| 24 | When she was found they reckoned she 'd been lying there for three hours . |
| 25 | And I wondered why there was n't and I 'd been sitting there for ages , twenty five past five is the appointment . |
| 26 | Nor did she mention the fact that she 'd been sitting there for nearly three hours . |
| 27 | Just imagine if he 'd been sitting there with his legs dangling outside . |
| 28 | It was a freezing cold day and I 'd been sitting there in nothing but these dungarees that I 'd been working on the roof in . |
| 29 | Here she was , imagining that the last half-hour had been a sort of truce — telling Marc all those things about her life on the stage , all those silly , funny , self-mocking stories of disaster and mayhem that were part of the business , and he 'd been sitting there in judgement all that time , working out how much Peter might or might not have paid her for playing the part of his fiancée … |
| 30 | He 'd been walking home after celebrating starting a new job after nine months on the dole when he was set upon . |