Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Reuben Boll had been taking the last part of his annual leave . |
| 32 | Kochen maintained that DEC had been taking a worldwide census of ‘ hundreds of customers ’ recently to ascertain whether OSF/1-on-MIPS was a viable policy . |
| 33 | The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings . |
| 34 | Pressed to state whether he was satisfied that nothing illegitimate had been taking place , Stewart was evasive . |
| 35 | The company had wanted him to transfer to London , in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school . |
| 36 | For the left , the social contract was to be intimately connected with the industrial policy which had been taking shape under the auspices of the National Executive Committee over the early '70s . |
| 37 | The only way this impinged on the message Macmillan had been taking up to the generals in the front-line was that they might now have to prepare even more urgently for military operations to reinforce allied policy . |
| 38 | Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed . |
| 39 | To Zvi , Wine was an upstart — an interloper who had suddenly appeared in the community a year ago ( real name , Zvi had been told , was Benny Wineberg from Brighton ) , set up as a dentist , and by charging ludicrously low fees had been taking clients from Zvi . |
| 40 | She had a way of looking slightly obliquely at me , as if she knew something I did not — not anything to do with the role she was playing , but about life in general ; as if she too had been taking lessons from the stone head . |
| 41 | All of us young people , even unbelievers , had been taking an interest in Thomism . |
| 42 | Silas told me he had been taking you round the sheep . ’ |
| 43 | The period investigated is one of increased interest in political and academic circles in the implications of the decisive shift in the British age structure , towards a higher proportion of older people , which had been taking place since the beginning of the century . |
| 44 | Pease had been taking part in a march through the capital , Lima , when the officer shot him at close range with bird shot . |
| 45 | Trade unions representing ambulance workers and National Health Service ( NHS ) management agreed on Feb. 23 on a phased pay increase for ambulance workers , who since September 1989 had been taking varying degrees of industrial action [ see p. 37160 ] . |
| 46 | A police statement on Nov. 14 , however , claimed that the shots had gone astray ( one into the air , the other into the ground ) only because a policeman had pounced on the gunman , Aleksandr Shmonov , as he had been taking aim at the leadership 's reviewing stand atop the Lenin Mausoleum , only 46 metres away . |
| 47 | Talks between the government and the ANC had been taking place against a background of mounting violence , particularly in Natal and the townships of the Transvaal , between supporters of the ANC and of Inkatha [ for eventual Mandela-Buthelezi meeting in January 1991 see p. 37951 ] . |
| 48 | Despite a post-election resumption of fighting , a breakthrough in negotiations appeared imminent following the March round of the UN-sponsored peace talks between the government and the FMLN ( which had been taking place at monthly intervals over the past year ) . |
| 49 | On Feb. 6 , with the agreement of the authorities in the Georgian autonomous republic of Abkhazia , government troops established control in Sukhumi , where rallies in support of the deposed President had been taking place daily . |
| 50 | Sir Robin Day , who had been taking a nap on a sofa in the BBC room in the balcony , was hurriedly awakened . |
| 51 | Four of them had been taking non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) for a mean period of 10 ( range one to 18 ) months for arthritis and remarkably one of these had DU in spite of having pentagastrin fast achlorhydria due to pernicious anaemia . |
| 52 | Both had been taking fluticasone propionate during the trial , but the investigators considered the deaths were caused by disease activity rather than the treatment received . |
| 53 | Of these , 44 had been taking delayed release mesalazine as the sole maintenance treatment for at least six months . |
| 54 | When the code was broken , it was found that he had been taking placebo rather than ursodeoxycholic acid . |
| 55 | Twenty patients who had been taking NSAIDs for more than six months underwent a screening phase and all 13 with NSAID enteropathy were recruited to the study . |
| 56 | Morse had not started the crossword yet ( ‘ Ichabod' this week ) , but just to the right of it Lewis noticed a brief item on a fatal accident at the Marston Ferry Road traffic lights : a young student who had been taking a crash course in EFL . |
| 57 | Ten patients ( nine women ) had been taking NSAIDS — in two this consisted of just occasional aspirin and five took an NSAID regularly for rheumatoid arthritis . |
| 58 | They were the two he had talked to on the previous search , the ones who had been taking such pains with the dovecot . |
| 59 | What made this worse was that we ( there were a few of us Leeds fans in my school ) we friends with a west brom fan , and had been taking the piss all year … had nt they recently gone up to div 1 ? |
| 60 | The court 's heard that she had been taking cocaine and drinking whisky . |