Example sentences of "[vb past] been [v-ing] [conj] [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | Pulling a little face , she carefully folded the tea-towel she 'd been using and laid it on the work surface . |
2 | For years , I had been reading and re-reading his novels , ever since I had come across Prester John at my prep school . |
3 | Gatsby decides to take the blame and pretend that he had been driving and take whatever punishment comes , which in the end meant that he was shot by the dead woman 's husband . |
4 | It was almost as if he had spent three weeks thinking over what he had been doing and worked it all out . |
5 | He had been following and watching our friends . |