Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] [prep] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | So it was obvious that my father had been thinking of this long before . |
| 2 | The conference of 1923 was the culmination of long planning on the part of Lord Darlington ; indeed , in retrospect , one can see clearly how his lordship had been moving towards this point from some three years or so before . |
| 3 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 4 | In his own way , Ted had been building for this moment too . |
| 5 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 6 | It was as if she had been waiting for this moment for four years or more . |
| 7 | Dowd had been waiting for this man , Matthias McGann , to say his piece . |
| 8 | Alec d'Urberville , who had been waiting for this moment , appeared at her side . |
| 9 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 10 | ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons . |
| 11 | Anne had been dwelling on this , even as the queen-dowager , together with the prince , princesses and Joan , waited with a mixture of feelings — hope , doubt , impatience and irritation — for her reply . |
| 12 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 13 | Had been dreaming about this for a long time , he wrote . |
| 14 | She had been feeling like this about Dr Russell for nearly a year . |