Example sentences of "[noun] [noun pl] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four middle-aged women got out of it , and she guessed they were the Women 's Institute members who had been checking the bush walk on behalf of the Institute . |
| 2 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 3 | The company had wanted him to transfer to London , in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school . |
| 4 | They carried away the bin of meat fragments they had been carrying . |
| 5 | An undisciplined cheer went up from the crew members who had been watching the fight . |
| 6 | Jessamyn lay flat on the contoured table as the Doc sliced away the facial bandages , still relaxed from the morph-plus shots she had been taking every day . |
| 7 | She had met her connection in the usual place but the moment the deal was struck they were busted by three plainclothes policemen who had been watching them from an unmarked car on the opposite side of the road . |
| 8 | ‘ Before the student demonstrations I had been working with a group of Latin American intellectuals in Paris , helping bring out a magazine . |
| 9 | They arrived with a group of Wirral students who had been undertaking work experience in France . |
| 10 | The church had been partly demolished by a devastating gale in the 1930s , to the secret relief of the Church Commissioners who had been considering what to do with a building of absolutely no architectural merit serving a congregation at the major festivals of six at the most . |
| 11 | The government announced that on April 15 it had arrested a group of soldiers and retired army officers who had been planning to overthrow the government . |
| 12 | She welcomed the work done and the fact that so many people who had been waiting for so long had been treated , but was concerned that health workers who had been working flat out to reduce the lists would not be able to maintain their work rate . |
| 13 | Like the GenSyn apes they had been experimenting upon . |
| 14 | When the new government said it would stick to the strong franc , fund managers who had been buying shares and selling francs promptly did the opposite . |
| 15 | Walking slowly through autumn streets he had been wrestling with the ways in which it appeared to him that Coleridge had made use of a now little known book , Ridley 's Tales of the Genii . |
| 16 | Crowther told Darlington magistrates he had been drinking before a football match several hours before he was stopped by police . |
| 17 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
| 18 | Apart from anything else , his family came from Glasgow ( unlike twenty-five of the thirty-one Scottish lord lieutenants , Admiral Bryson had also been educated in Scotland ) , as several of the big Sussex landowners who had been hoping for the job quickly pointed out . |
| 19 | She swung round rather abruptly , and recognised the young man as one of the detective constables who had been haunting the Lodge all day . |
| 20 | Presently , in the silence that followed these remarks , the two young women heard the sound of distant guns more distant , it seemed , than the sepoy cannons which had been firing intermittently throughout their conversation ; this sound echoed from across the dark rim of the plain . |