Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [v-ing] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been waiting for this moment for so long , and all she could do , now that it had finally arrived , was think the worst of him , instead of simply being happy to see him again . |
| 2 | I 'd been waiting for some opportunity to show off , to draw attention to myself . |
| 3 | so I mean I 'd been dying for this pint all , all day sort of thing , I felt much better after that . |
| 4 | If you 'd been working with this angle instead , we did n't know that and we 're trying to work with this one or we say we 're interested in this angle so that will be the opposite and this would be the adjacent . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'd been working on that right during training it was more of a natural reaction . ’ |
| 6 | It was also frustrating for the scientists who 'd been working on this project for more than a decade . |
| 7 | ‘ I did n't even know of them until later on in my teens , after I 'd been recording for several years . |
| 8 | Five minutes later he came in trying to tell tell us jokes and each time he 'd been paddling through this brake fluid and the carpet is just you know , brains |
| 9 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 10 | The US and North Korean governments had been communicating for several years at a low level through the US embassy in Beijing . |
| 11 | Eventually an old gentleman who had been listening with much amusement to their discussion said that what mattered was not whether the earthworm has an immortal soul but whether it has a purpose . |
| 12 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 13 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains running at less flexible times . |
| 14 | A report to the meeting said services to the region had been deteriorating for several years , with fewer trains at less flexible times . |
| 15 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 16 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 17 | The advice was given after Jo had been speaking to both children and their parents ( an audience that included 12 year old Romy Hutchins — a participant in the Challenge — and her father Paul , the former British Davis Cup captain and national team manager ) , in a unique question and answer session which preceded an on court clinic for the 20 or so participating juniors . |
| 18 | To judge by the clutter of bottles , glasses , and over-filled ashtrays , and the brooding , weary faces , they had been debating for many hours . |
| 19 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 20 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 21 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 22 | For the first time she recognized that secretly she had been looking for some way out for herself and Midnight . |
| 23 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 24 | The phone had been ringing for some time . |
| 25 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 26 | In fact , he was so happy with the idea that had come to him from the writer , Peter Shaffer , he began the serious rethink of his career which friends like Lance Percival had been thinking for some time was overdue . |
| 27 | It had never occurred to her that Christopher had been thinking of these things too . |
| 28 | The conference of 1923 was the culmination of long planning on the part of Lord Darlington ; indeed , in retrospect , one can see clearly how his lordship had been moving towards this point from some three years or so before . |
| 29 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 30 | There they brought the coracle ashore lightly , and drew in , with reluctance and the reverence of finality , what they had been hunting with such assiduity , and so persistently hoped they would not find . |