Example sentences of "something [pers pn] had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is something I had been thinking a lot about recently , using Psalm 37 as a basis . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Constance had lost Ludo — something she had been dreading on the journey up from Florence — but she was not alarmed . |
| 4 | no , no , something you had been wanting to do , not we , you had been wanting |
| 5 | It was something he had been wanting to do for over ten years , but , now that he had done it , he had destroy something that had been between them — a mysterious , almost exquisite , promise of delight . |
| 6 | He scored another victory recently when the Labour Party abolished the unions ' block vote in the leadership elections , something he had been advocating for ages . |
| 7 | At the end of the lunch , Branson said in a faltering voice that there was something he had been thinking of doing , and he wanted to ask Laker how he would feel about it . |
| 8 | As soon as her breasts were free of their thin cotton restraint , he licked the soft , warm flesh , as if the taste of her was something he had been craving for an eternity . |