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.