Example sentences of "[noun] they had been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 2 | For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole . |
| 3 | All over Spain , rebel officers put into action the plan they had been elaborating since December of the previous year . |
| 4 | There was restrained optimism among Wickham 's team that this could be the lead they had been waiting for . |
| 5 | He had told Mr Gibson they had been walking past the barn and had gone in for shelter . |
| 6 | Later that evening they had been sitting in a restaurant and Maggie had looked at Tom and said , her delicate face and long neck almost visibly aquiver with pleasure , |
| 7 | Several analysts were confounded by the strong performance : only on Monday they had been muttering about how sustainable recent performance had been , and querying whether the share price had not run ahead of itself . |
| 8 | Abie Klugman had long grown used to the taunt — it was Aronson 's stock joke for all of the ten years they had been lodging with Mrs Neumann , and he no longer minded it . |
| 9 | Like the GenSyn apes they had been experimenting upon . |
| 10 | For her parents Fran and Les , it was the day they had been waiting for . |
| 11 | A frisson of disbelief and unease passed though the male patrons as the woman they had been watching in simulated copulation on the screen materialised in the flesh before their very eyes . |
| 12 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 13 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 14 | The parents were outraged ; the managers had got the opportunity they had been waiting for . |
| 15 | It was the man they had been talking about at Christmas dinner . |
| 16 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 17 | She preached about the passover , a subject they had been studying at Bible camp , and obviously made a good impression . |
| 18 | A crowd of eager customers would be awaiting his arrival outside the shops and attack him for the particular colour , size or style of dress they had been waiting for . |
| 19 | Having accepted the ground rules , all the Grants appreciated and relished a structure that allowed a degree of communication they had been missing for years . |
| 20 | In the first year of the new tour , Len Owen , then tournament director for the Benson and Hedges tournament at Wembley , revealed that they were expecting to have to pay $500,000 in appearance money , in addition to the same amount they had been offering in prize money when they were a protected event . |
| 21 | They first told police they had been hunting for foxes . |
| 22 | The broad effect of the Act was to enable societies to offer the extended range of services they had been lobbying for . |
| 23 | Here is a moment when the danger to the dismasted Hurrying Angel becomes apparent to the exhausted crew as the light grows and they can view the sea they had been fighting in the dark : |
| 24 | All this time they had been standing by the front door . |
| 25 | He had been sending in listings , even reports , on the gigs they had been running in Birmingham . |
| 26 | With Dara once more clinging firmly and rather painfully to her arm she was walked back to the small , intimate table they had been sharing on the edge of the small dance-floor , but Ace was quickly on to his feet , side-stepping Dara 's attempt to greet him with a kiss . |