Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 2 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 3 | When one recalls that for decades geography was not recognized as a scholarly discipline , one can not perhaps be surprised that some scientists have unsuspectingly spent their whole careers studying geography — rather like the well-known character of Molière who did not know that he had been speaking prose all his life ! |
| 4 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
| 5 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 6 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 7 | Gavin Turk , who attracted notice for erecting , as his only contribution to his degree show at the Royal College of Art a year ago , a blue English Heritage plaque announcing that he had been working in his studio for two years , is having a first exhibition at an apartment in Docklands , opposite Canary Wharf ( 1–31 July ; by appointment only , call 071–274 0041 ) . |
| 8 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , yes , ’ she replied , and because she had almost added that she had been going to travel with her sister — which would surely then have led to her boring him out of his skull with all of the rest of it , ‘ All alone , ’ she added with feigned cheerfulness . |
| 10 | In [ 17 ] the author writes that he had been saying that Gardner looked very square : But of course Carver had not actually said that Gardner looked very square , at least not in the Gricean ( Grice 1981 ) sense of the word . |
| 11 | Eventually all was well , pockets complete , only for her to find that she had been cutting out these pocket linings in her already prepared garment lining ! ! |
| 12 | The master at this time , J.W. , was in trouble when it was reported that he had been boarding some of the officers and two of their relatives in his own apartments under a private arrangement . |
| 13 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , they have demonstrated activity in the visual areas during an imaging task , in the language areas during a verbal task and even , on one - occasion , in the higher visual areas of a schizophrenic patient who subsequently reported that he had been hallucinating . |
| 15 | She did n't know if they had been driving for minutes or days . |
| 16 | The problem with my files would have been solved if I had been using an IBM machine — but they were way beyond my price range when I bought my first computer . |
| 17 | The anger in Luke 's face had deepened while she had been speaking . |
| 18 | More than one unwary member of the garrison found that his bed had vanished while he had been defending the rampart against a sepoy assault . |
| 19 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 20 | He was also weaving and Adam realized that he had been drinking . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He asked himself , ‘ What is the direction upon which I have been depending ? ’ , and realized that he had been relying on a sense of what seemed ‘ natural ’ and ‘ right ’ to govern his actions . |
| 23 | Sean was the first man who ever made love to her , and Ruth had thought she loved him too , but it was not a happy marriage and when Sean was killed in France , just before the Armistice was signed , she realised that she had been denying her true feelings for years . |
| 24 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
| 25 | Miguel had been watching her , and she realised that she had been talking far too freely , and that she could n't see what he was thinking because of those dark glasses . |
| 26 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 27 | It only needed a quick glance to see that he had been rebuking her , for her face was flushed and angry and he wore the grim look that made him appear so formidable . |
| 28 | The star , hailed a hero after reports that he piloted his crippled executive jet to safety , refused to confirm that he had been flying the plane . |
| 29 | A big farmer admitted that he had been selling cotton stalks to agricultural labourers , a new trend in the region . |
| 30 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |