Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] be [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well sent off wi after I 'd been about beginning to be co you know , could e eat something , I had cups of tea , with a egg beat up that 's what I used to get when you got typhoid . |
| 2 | She wanted me to be independent and strong , the ‘ successful ’ person I 'd been before having children , so that she could be free to do this . |
| 3 | The only payment I received was for travelling expenses from COHSE . |
| 4 | I felt pleased of course , but strangely enough I did n't feel as elated as perhaps I should have done : not as elated as I had been after setting my British record in Madrid . |
| 5 | Sentence of death was passed on 8 convicts at the Old Bailey , 4 of whom were executed on 15 Feb. : ‘ One of those who suffered was for robbing a farmer 's boy of sixpence . ’ |
| 6 | She 'd been into biking since she went out with a Hell 's Angel called Rafe when she was sixteen . |
| 7 | The potty training restarted and then after 6 months she was re-established on cows milk starting with plain yogurt ( just as she had been during weaning . ) ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , Mr Varna , I 'm so sorry … ’ she stuttered , even more horrified by her gaffe than she had been about letting a strange woman push her way into the holy of holies . |
| 9 | She stopped , embarrassed suddenly , looked down , realised with a start just how close she had been to revealing some parts of her life , her thoughts … |
| 10 | The warm feeling induced by the spirit made her aware of how cold she had been since hearing the news . |
| 11 | Like him , she had been against destroying the revolution with massive bloodshed . |
| 12 | The only idea she had was of discovering some sort of shelter for the night , for she must catch the stage to her destination early in the morning . |
| 13 | What she wrote is worth repeating here : |
| 14 | BOB Phillips of Information Services at Risley sent us some motoring observations which we felt were worth sharing … |
| 15 | ‘ We were going past a pet shop in Shrewsbury , where we had been before looking for George , when we decided to have another look around . |
| 16 | If people had been in a building after we had been round testing it and seen it secure , they 'd come out and leave it open . |
| 17 | We were interested to see how far proposals were concentrated on particular aspects of the curriculum ( as opposed to an across-the-curriculum approach ) , how much participation there had been in arriving at the proposal , whether information-handling skills were recognised , and so on . |
| 18 | They were overheating in the Med , which they claimed was like swimming in spit . |
| 19 | The approach which they employed was by using hard systems which are capable of specification , analysis and manipulation in a more or less rigorous and quantitative manner ; soft systems which are not tractable by mathematical methods ; by exploring examples ; and by combining interdisciplinary approaches by reviewing the dilemmas which confront man 's intervention in natural systems . |
| 20 | The foreman , Ricky Hill , said afterwards that the only problem they had was in deciding exactly when Mr Bakker began the pattern of fraud . |
| 21 | He 'd been off having fun too much . |
| 22 | Maxim looked at the clutter of parts in front of him and realised how right he 'd been in saying soldiers hate to throw away guns , even cheap Spanish ones . |
| 23 | After a short while he identified a small bacon-curing business that he felt was worth investing in . |
| 24 | But the hope of it had been worth steeling herself to ask Edwin for that loan . |
| 25 | And , well , I just felt it had been worth trying but it was n't going to work . |
| 26 | Clarke had said the same thing and she had tried desperately to comply but it had been like trying to lay hold of darting butterflies . |
| 27 | It had been like kicking the hell out of a two-hole outhouse ; a lot of shit had gotten out and the stink rode free on the four winds . |
| 28 | Surinder , a Sikh woman , explained to me what it had been like coming to Britain in the sixties and finding a job in a sweat-shop soon after . |
| 29 | This was travelling in style — as one Imperial Airways passenger put it : ‘ I was sorry to get out ; it had been like sitting in a comfortable friendly club . ’ |
| 30 | Mr Kerrigan then questioned Mr Mackie about what it had been like working at the Kenway depot at the time he alleged drugs were being taken . |