You could see that Lucy
had been crying.

I could smell that my son
had been smoking.

She was the girl I had
been looking for.

Tom was exhausted. He
had been working all
day.

I had been studying
French for a long time.
Then I just gave it up.

We had been travelling
all day and were very
tired.

She looked as though
she had been waiting for
that moment all her life.

The garden was full of
toys. The children had
been playing there.

We had been dating for
two months when he
proposed to me.

They had been waiting
for fifteen minutes before
the waiter came.

He had an accident
because had been
driving too fast.

We were tired because
we had been working all
day.

Her hands were wet.
She had been washing
the floor.

He was an expert. He'd
been catching fish all his
life.

The soil was dry. It
hadn't been raining for
some time.

She told the doctor that
she hadn't been feeling
well recently.