Example sentences of "[conj] [conj] [noun] had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the afternoon had been more or less normal for the time of year except that Ted had been following Pete around for most of it , trying to pump him for details of what had happened between him and Diane Jackson . |
| 2 | Moreover the novel takes up the remark to Katkov that the criminal ‘ himself morally demands ’ his punishment ( which on its own might mean no more than that Dostoevsky had been reading Hegel or popularized Hegel ) , and builds some marvellous effects upon it . |
| 3 | But the truth is that if Parliament had been sitting , Mellor would have gone weeks ago . |
| 4 | I would not presume to add anything to the Word of God but I have a sneaking suspicion that if Isaiah had been writing in the 1990s he might have added a phrase . |
| 5 | — If he got the answers he expected , that Rhoda had kept William Egan 's money in some hiding place and that Roxie had been looking after her brother 's moneybags , and that all three women had been spending what they were supposed to be hoarding , then he knew what was causing the atmosphere he had picked up at Roxie 's house . |
| 6 | And because Odette had been crying , Liam had been crying too . |
| 7 | But if Berowne had been seeking a moment for further confidences it had disappeared . |
| 8 | But if Berowne had been writing and had blotted the paper at the desk , where was it now ? |
| 9 | He loves you , ’ said Comfort , and Julia believed her as she had believed her all those years before when Comfort had been urging her to fall in love with him . |
| 10 | For while Creggan had been attacking the hooded crow he had been watched and now he in his turn was being stooped upon . |