Example sentences of "[pers pn] had been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not tell him that his imitation of the French was far more like what I had been seeing for the past year . |
| 2 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If I had been staying with you I … |
| 5 | I decided to go back to the village , to thank him for all his help , and to carry out a plan I had been considering for some time . |
| 6 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 7 | It was a coincidence that the previous weekend I had been sorting through an old trunk of mine full of memorabilia at my parents ' home , and came across my membership certificate for the Tailwaggers Club , along with Tailwagger medallion . |
| 8 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 9 | When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years . |
| 10 | With a gloomy wantonness of imagination I had been coquetting with the hideous possibles of disappointment . |
| 11 | I had been struggling with tears for some time and now I let them flow freely . |
| 12 | I had been dealing with trivia but this was different . |
| 13 | I had been dealing in coke to a very small circle of friends , not more than half a dozen . |
| 14 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 15 | It might have been a delayed reaction to the drugs I had been taking for an operation I 'd recently had on my foot , but this seemed unlikely . |
| 16 | And I had been loading for the Major the last time that I was out shooting , the last time for me like . |
| 17 | For about a year , since the summer before last , in fact , I had been writing to her and she to me and , because of the distance and something else I have n't been able to put my finger on ( maybe a need for excitement ) , the letters had become more and more sentimental , more and more loving , more and more like proper love letters . |
| 18 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 19 | Although Eliot considered this idea a good one , especially in view of the articles I had been writing for the New English Weekly ( for example , ‘ Italy must Choose ; and ‘ An Open Letter to Ansaldo ’ , which Mairet had forwarded to the spokesman in question and also to the Vatican ) , he felt that such a book issued in time of war , would need official backing . |
| 20 | Until very late the previous night I had been writing about Krakatoa and trials by Fire , and was deeply asleep when the cat woke me . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I had been training throughout the winter and Andy , as promised , sneaked me some races in the summer . |
| 23 | Living at Betty 's house , I had been listening to it speak for long enough . |
| 24 | I had been listening to a lot of songs in very different styles , quite consciously , to try to get a little more inspiration for when we went into the studio . |
| 25 | Six years later she remembers , vividly , a match against Fiona Anderson in the Scottish Championship at North Berwick which was won by Gillian Stewart : " I had been listening to " The Mikado " before I set out and I was humming it in my head all the way round . |
| 26 | He was overlooking the fact that I had been living with Jean-Claude for more than three years . |
| 27 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 28 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
| 29 | After all , that was what I had been aiming at . |
| 30 | That is the very thing I had been wishing for — someone to recommend me . |