Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 2 | I 'd been existing on two or three hours ' sleep a night . |
| 3 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 4 | I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all . |
| 5 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 6 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 7 | The vasectomy dated from 1980 , when a girl I 'd been sleeping with told me she was embarazada . |
| 8 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 10 | They would n't understand how earth-shaking it was that I 'd been dreaming at last . |
| 11 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 12 | I 'd been falling since nineteen |
| 13 | I 'd been walking for 45 minutes when I was hailed by a local farmer who had seen me on the moonlit road . |
| 14 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 15 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 16 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 17 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 18 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 19 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 20 | My flight path ended on a small ledge , my hands still grasping Olympus camera which I had been cradling for all my worth , regardless of the blows striking my body from every angle . |
| 21 | It was a cold day and I had been standing in that particular spot for half an hour , so I was glad to get into the car , which was driven by a smart-looking man in a tweed cap . |
| 22 | Whoever expected the little grey devils I had been assaulting with white arrows and rolling with white healing balls to reappear in my lung ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I had been working for more than an hour and my wrists ached from the continuous chopping , but I was filled with an immense exhilaration . |
| 25 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 26 | The wood at the back of the painting was deeply scored with a dagger as if someone had been searching for some secret crevice or compartment . |
| 27 | The vote resolved a constitutional crisis which had been brewing for some months and which had centred around Slovak demands for far-reaching autonomy in most areas of policy . |
| 28 | To support his family , which had been living in grinding poverty in a squalid tenement , he had to emigrate in 1903 to the USA . |
| 29 | The turn of the century marks the real change in Freud 's work , which had been developing from 1895 through his self-analysis . |
| 30 | The nucleus of the new squadron was provided mainly by ‘ C ’ Flight of 261 Squadron , the unit 's ground component being provided by the latter unit and by 1430 Flight , an army co-operation unit which had been operating in Italian East Africa until the previous month , when the main campaign there had been satisfactorily completed . |