Example sentences of "[vb past] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Baltic opinion , in particular , objected that the changes proposed were centralising in character and that the republics ' ( admittedly nominal ) right of secession had been prejudiced . |
| 2 | The basic problem he encountered was getting across why his own complete immaterialism was not itself more overtly and explicitly sceptical than the standard view that there exist both material bodies and incorporeal minds or spirits . |
| 3 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 4 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 5 | Ven queried , as well he might , she realised , for she 'd been chatting to him like a veritable magpie all evening with not so much as a hint of shyness . |
| 6 | Cos Ange said she 'd , she 'd been chatting about Jenny to her . |
| 7 | He had n't said he was going away and renting his house , which was odd because they 'd been chatting in the village not two days before he 'd disappeared and Leo taken up residence . |
| 8 | Now he was on his third circuit of the Bay : he 'd been ducking under bulldozers for almost an hour . |
| 9 | It was as if she 'd been calling on a dead line to an empty building . |
| 10 | After missing him during his stay in Geneva ( he 'd been presiding over Berlioz 's Benvenuto Cellini at the Grand Théâtre there ) , I finally succeeded in making contact with him in Rome , where he was conducting the orchestra of the Academia di Santa Cecilia in music by Schubert , Nino Rota and , not unexpectedly , Berlioz — the Symphonie fantastique . |
| 11 | Isabel 's personal integrity had been there in her clear gaze all the time , if he 'd been thinking with his head instead of with his emotions . |
| 12 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 13 | She 'd sided with my parents a couple of years before when I 'd been thinking of a career as an artist , and they were opposed to that … |
| 14 | Now he 'd lost track of what he 'd been thinking of completely . |
| 15 | ‘ And I 'd been thinking of you only yesterday . |
| 16 | He 'd been thinking of asking one of the two who had entered the front room during Slater 's monologue — the more attractive of them — for a dance even as Slater was telling him how desirable Richard Slater was . |
| 17 | ‘ I 'd been thinking of it , ’ he said . |
| 18 | I 'd been thinking of you know things that that I had that can go . |
| 19 | The whole idea that he 'd been thinking about since Christmas seemed pointless all of a sudden . |
| 20 | She 'd had a fever since last night , and all day at school he 'd been thinking about her . |
| 21 | She had n't known until Sir Philip mentioned it at dinner last night that I 'd been thinking about marrying her . |
| 22 | He 'd been thinking about her , but he did n't want it to show . |
| 23 | She 'd been thinking about becoming a nun but she could n't be with a baby . |
| 24 | I 'd been thinking about this all the way back to London . |
| 25 | She 'd been thinking about something , or somebody , else . |
| 26 | you know there was I 've got a policy er here that I can take out and you took it and then that was it and you spent the rest of the time talking about this one policy whereas , because you 'd been thinking about that one , there may have been others that you may have been able to disturb her about or erm you know if she had other member of the family or education , whatever , there was , there was other areas that maybe you could 've brought up or gone back to anyway . |
| 27 | It ran beside a broad , shaded boulevard of feathery pepper trees , and the sudden sight of European-style buildings made him reflect that the jungles , fields and villages through which they 'd been moving for the past few hours had remained unchanging throughout many centuries . |
| 28 | They 'd been strolling through the individual gardens within the whole for more than two hours , while Rune told her about the traditions of the gardens and how , despite attempts at imitation , they remained unique in Europe — if not the world — before they reached the area set aside for the funfair and he suggested she might like a ride on some of the attractions . |
| 29 | She apologised , over the phone , the next day ; she 'd been hiding under the bedclothes , playing her favourite David Bowie cassette at maximum volume on her Sony Walkman , trying to drown the noise of the thunder . |
| 30 | He 'd been hiding in a woodland graveyard , only half-heartedly concealed behind one of the leaning roofed crosses . |