Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] had been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Isolated from her sons , Diana had been expecting a visit from Gilbey at Althorp House where she had been staying with her brother , Charles . |
| 5 | Jay 's rainbow wings fluttered around a sun-sparkling river that had become her life , where she had been moping by an old canal full of dead shopping trolleys for years . |
| 6 | No one who had ever stood on the edge of that abyss where she had been teetering for so long , that held hunger and cold , sickness that could not be treated for lack of a shilling , children one could afford neither to raise nor to bury , would have a harsh word to say . |
| 7 | It reminded Jane of one of the Professor Branestawm stories she had read as a child in which the characters were photographs come alive , each repeating , over and over again , the sentence he or she had been saying at the moment the photograph was taken . |
| 8 | It was not known yesterday if the three had returned to Scotland or to the Costa del Sol where they had been living before their arrest . |
| 9 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 10 | Then , towards the end of January , people noticed that at least one boar was coming right up to the village in its nighttime foraging : there were tracks in the snow and patches of scratched earth where it had been digging for roots . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He was overlooking the fact that I had been living with Jean-Claude for more than three years . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 15 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As Lou 's story progressed , however , it emerged that she had been living with Rick for several months and had high hopes of becoming engaged to him herself . |
| 18 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 19 | He was inclined to believe her : her anger was a natural reaction to his accusation that she had been prying into data which was not her concern . |
| 20 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
| 21 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 22 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 23 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 24 | She tried to recall when she had last passed a house , an AA box , a public telephone , but it seemed to her that she had been driving through deserted countryside for at least ten minutes . |
| 25 | Her boast was that she had been dancing at every RAF and American air force station within a 30-mile radius , and that she would n't look at any male with a rank lower than Squadron Leader or the American equivalent . |
| 26 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |
| 27 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 28 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 29 | But now , when her mind travelled back , it was clear from the young man 's behaviour and some of the comments he had made that she had been suffering from myopia . |
| 30 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |