Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They first told police they had been hunting for foxes . |
| 2 | Then Candy brought forward a witness who assured police he had been drinking with the prisoner in the Star , another central Reading public house , at the time of the murder . |
| 3 | In the end , Clara , exasperated beyond endurance , brought up once more the possibility of cremation ( not daring to mention , even in her own mind , which had not quite forsaken filial tenderness , the possibility of the once-praised dust cart ) and Mrs Maugham , square , immutable , said quite astonishingly for her , and invoking sanctions she had been deriding for thirty years , that ashes must go to ashes and dust to dust . |
| 4 | Government changes to the tax system in recent years had allowed the company to come up with a solution which would make shares which had been trading at less than £3 last month to £5 , Mr Ritblat said . |
| 5 | Robert recognized faces he had been trying to avoid for weeks . |