Example sentences of "[adv] the [noun] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tabitha wondered how long the woman had been scratching a living on the waterways , complaining to uncaring passengers , never quite summoning up the cash or the strength to take the long haul home . |
| 2 | Perhaps the luck had been going our way recently . |
| 3 | Perhaps the Gruagach had been following them , keeping just out of sight , waiting until they dismounted , ready to reach out and scoop them up and carry them back to Tara and the roasting spits … |
| 4 | Obviously the police had been making enquiries about the Sally Nash case . |
| 5 | People from outside the college had been coming in freely , causing trouble , stealing and even beating students . |
| 6 | Meanwhile the eunuch had been concluding a search below . |
| 7 | Because one did not know how accurately the clock had been ticking during the processes of weighing , one could not know precisely the times at which the movements of the shutter occurred between which the radiation was released . |
| 8 | Ironically the couple had been discussing putting smoke detectors in all the rooms just the day before the fire happened . |
| 9 | Ironically the mother had been supporting them in their grief , while hiding her own . |
| 10 | Overhead the clouds had been breaking up for some time . |
| 11 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 12 | ‘ A few seconds earlier the girls had been skipping and laughing . ’ |
| 13 | Until then the compound had been gathering dust on the shelves of the company 's research laboratories on the campus at Reading University . |
| 14 | Maggie remembered how the building had been rocking on its foundations . |
| 15 | The Sun identified the exact hospital and also mentioned how the wife had been living with her mother in a named town since her husband 's arrest . |
| 16 | He had hardly finished his remark when there was a terrifying roar overhead as a salvo of shells crashed into the area near to where the Germans had been mortaring . |
| 17 | The room just along the corridor from where the Marshal had been waiting was stuffy and fetid with the smell of old unwashed clothing and mothballs . |
| 18 | The worst violence yesterday was in the western city of David where the trial had been taking place since July 6 . |
| 19 | Explosions : red flames and chunks of rock spouted from the slopes where the Counsellors had been standing . |
| 20 | Yet the volunteers had been beavering away down there for two months , working well into the night on many occasions , and were to be there for many more months to come . |
| 21 | The owners of smaller industrial enterprises usually retained many of the antiaristocratic views of the early nineteenth century , when the bourgeoisie had been struggling against the Old Regime . |
| 22 | She was about to ask him why the party had been using the OBEX pool when , as if he could read her thoughts , he said , ‘ I used to take them to the public swimming-pool in town , but it gets so crowded that some of them used to get frightened . |