Example sentences of "[pron] had been [v-ing] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I HAD BEEN making the rounds of the Sacrifice Poles the day we heard my brother had escaped . |
| 2 | Luckily I had been doing The Clothes Show on TV and her father had seen me and knew I was reputable . |
| 3 | I had been paying the fees of the home a month in advance , but when explaining about the social security payments , I sent two months ' fees in advance to cover , as I thought , any delay . |
| 4 | The idea of such a journey came about , I should point out , from a most kind suggestion put to me by Mr Farraday himself one afternoon almost a fortnight ago , when I had been dusting the portraits in the library . |
| 5 | As a result , Mackensen was freed to attack the northern region of Serbia ; and Bulgaria , which had been watching the fortunes of war , anxious to identify the winning side , joined the Central Powers on 6 September 1915 . |
| 6 | This high moorland village is an industrial settlement developed early in the nineteenth century to house lead-miners and their families employed by the Blackett family , which had been exploiting the deposits since 1729 . |
| 7 | She had been fastening the buttons at the shoulder of Thomas 's elephant-patterned pyjamas , but all sense of co-ordination suddenly seemed to vanish and her fingers fumbled in vain . |
| 8 | It was then Gedanken realized that all along she had been hearing the voices of the beetles over a loudspeaker . |
| 9 | Although he was horribly conscious of his filthy boots , he sought out the supervisor of the office cleaning company by which Mrs. Millings was employed , and explained that she was late only because she had been helping the police to investigate a river tragedy " like a good citizen " . |
| 10 | She had been descending the stairs when she 'd slipped and had fallen down numerous steps . |
| 11 | Probably , she had been studying the figures with too much intensity , and now she needed a break . |
| 12 | The priest , with folded hands and closed eyes , recited Grace , and the meal began : soup served by a daughter of the same sister of Rose 's who had been taking the photos ; chicken and ham , with salad . |
| 13 | Slowly , like a black storm cloud that builds up ominously on a distant horizon , the second of the two Men who had been feeding the eagles advanced on Woil . |
| 14 | ‘ I du n no , ’ said Masklin , who had been watching the geese speculatively . |
| 15 | The Home Secretary , Sir Samuel Hoare , noted that any influx of refugees from the continent might bring together the political extremes — the fascists who had been attacking the Jews for three years and the communists and other left-wing elements who might argue that Jewish refugees were taking away Gentile employment . |
| 16 | But when she went out , she saw the girl who had been doing the flowers waiting in the porch , and guessed that she must be the Vicar 's wife . |
| 17 | Philip Morris itself had been testing the effects of discounting in Oregon . |
| 18 | We had been reading the poems of a Greek poet in French translation together . |
| 19 | Whilst they had been watching the protesters , a waitress had come out of The Crossed Keys hotel on the corner of the square carrying a tray of interesting-looking glasses . |
| 20 | Lorton had known who they were as soon as he 'd seen them ; he had been expecting the police , though not quite as soon as this , and in any case salesmen rarely travelled in pairs . |
| 21 | When interviewed by police Hardy had said he had been watching the disturbances but denied throwing missiles . |
| 22 | He had been watching the expressions that played across her face as she spoke , determination , enthusiasm and simple enjoyment in the challenges presented by her job . |
| 23 | He had been reading the notes of Wittgenstein , he said , who before his death had been working on the relation between the private , sensuous experience of colour and the universal language of colour words with which we appear to be able to communicate it . |
| 24 | Whenever possible he had been forcing the lords of Aquitaine to acknowledge that they held their " honours " , their counties , viscounties and other seigneuries , not as independent lordships but as fiefs , for which they owed the Duke homage . |
| 25 | At the last , Britain 's ambassador to Constantinople abandoned the encouragement he had been giving the Turks and advised them to go on negotiating , but by this time neither Britain nor France was in a position to withdraw the backing which they had been giving the sultan . |