Example sentences of "[subord] i [vb past] [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got up , walked backwards towards the nearest dune , threw the can way high over the top of it , then came back , lay down where I 'd been sitting earlier , and closed my eyes . |
| 2 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 3 | In late August I was finishing my day at the heart clinic , where I had been working for several months , when I decided that it was time to go . |
| 4 | Next I went to the Clerecia , where I had been sitting with Dana watching that wall-clock 's gift pendulum busily wagging away on the wall in front of the great baroque gilt altar . |
| 5 | One afternoon I completed another unsuccessful attempt at a cannon : I had no sooner moved away than the pipe crashed down exactly where I had been standing . |
| 6 | I had just returned to Los Angeles from the Aleutians where I had been making a film , and I came across Errol Flynn at a party at David O Selznick 's house . |
| 7 | It was not until eleven years later that I returned to England and saw Biddy and Joe again , although I had been writing regularly to them . |
| 8 | And went on telling him odiously about me ( one Saturday morning shopping in the Village ) and I did n't know where to look , although I 'd been wanting to meet him . |
| 9 | I put down a bit less than I had been drinking . |
| 10 | To dwell on the Caledonian Canal for a moment , this was my first of many passages through which is for me the most beautiful of all the canals — the ultimate in inland waterways , so I had been looking forward to it immensely . |
| 11 | I sat there silent for a moment while he went on looking at me sympathetically as if I 'd been telling him a hard-luck story . |
| 12 | If I 'd been buying my fist laser today , the poor benighted soul would be less likely to endure a coronary , since , for less than one thousand pounds I could nip out and buy a very nicely specified machine . |
| 13 | ‘ He asked me if I 'd been teaching them about poisonous plants , ’ said Corbett Farraday . |
| 14 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 15 | But I should have got higher if I 'd been stopping . |
| 16 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
| 17 | I 'd have seen it if I 'd been coming down the stairs instead of in the lift . |
| 18 | I felt as if I 'd been sitting there half the night . |
| 19 | If I 'd been painting shadows they 'd have been blue or grey , but real shadows are n't nearly so simple ! ’ |
| 20 | I have no compass to tell me what I am destined for ; and yet , when I look back , everything seems to fit as well together as if I 'd been following a benevolent daimon all along … |
| 21 | I 'd been paying tax and national insurance for 12 years before I found myself having to make a claim and if I 'd been putting the money in a building society I 'd have had a lot more than I eventually got out of them . ’ |
| 22 | If I 'd been carrying my gun I 'd have pulled it . |
| 23 | I collapsed back into the armchair , almost as exhausted as if I 'd been climbing the Eigernordwand . |
| 24 | If I 'd been planning to abandon you , as you so melodramatically put it , I 'd have made a much better job of it . |
| 25 | If I 'd been doing a pukka delivery , I could just have carried straight on virtually due north and come to City Road . |
| 26 | For them the time must have flown by , but for me it seemed as if I 'd been standing out there all morning ! |
| 27 | If I 'd been standing , I 'd have shuffled my feet . |
| 28 | If I 'd been standing here fifteen years ago I 'd have been run over by now because there were four lanes of traffic running around here . |
| 29 | And that was the only part I did n't care for , because if I 'd been arriving at a lot of conclusions that were wrong , then I could be wrong about this too . |
| 30 | If I had been counting , or had been more familiar with the aircraft or the sequence , I might have been ready for him . |