Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] had been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , he could just imagine Cashman 's fury if he discovered that Cindy had been staying unchaperoned with Matthew . |
| 2 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |
| 3 | Mitra attacked a secret visit by Ramos to Switzerland in mid-February , hinting that Ramos had been seeking foreign funds for his campaign . |
| 4 | Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton ! |
| 5 | He was not , in fact , the first to work with the Longhorns : a blacksmith named Welby living on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire had been attempting systematic improvement of the type using animals from the Derbyshire herd of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow House , Burton-on-Trent ( a herd which by 1720 was already uniform and impressively well matched for shape and colour ) , and a Mr Webster of Canley , near Coventry , bred animals from the same herd with stock from Westmorland and Lancashire . |
| 6 | It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself . |
| 7 | The bruise was a dull , greenish sickle of shadow just under the cheek-bone and then a comma of purple on the side of the nose , as if Culley had been wearing ill-fitting glasses . |
| 8 | The officers believe Elizabeth and Julie had been sunbathing naked on the remote beach , confident they would not be seen . |
| 9 | Because Britain had been producing nuclear power longer than most other countries , this was a particularly acute problem . |