Example sentences of "[that] i had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |
| 2 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 3 | He was overlooking the fact that I had been living with Jean-Claude for more than three years . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 6 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 7 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 8 | I checked through my notes to make sure I had the correct dates , aware I had the correct dates , aware that I had been finding it hard to concentrate . |
| 9 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 10 | I knew there were other bags of cubes in the kitchen refrigerator , so , feeling that I had been walking the train for a lifetime , I went along through the dining room to fetch some . |
| 11 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |