Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [v-ing] at [det] " in BNC.

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1 I 'd been writing a monthly column for Options as long as I 'd been writing at all .
2 It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other .
3 It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl .
4 Mr Campbell said that during the first incident , when Mr Friel and the two younger accused had been shouting at each other in the shopping centre , the lawyer had struck the 15-year-old on the face with the dog leash .
5 Our problem had been landing at all .
6 Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover .
7 And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working .
8 If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury .
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