Example sentences of "[pron] had been [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turned out to be an inspector of taxes with whom I had been conducting a mini back-duty enquiry and which was in the concluding stages . |
| 2 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 3 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 4 | Giovanna 's husband acquired a long garden cane , which had been supporting a tottering mallow , and with it established the depth . |
| 5 | She had been wearing a light cotton shirt with a dark blue skirt . |
| 6 | I was sure she had been holding a small phial with the letters ‘ SUL ’ written on it . |
| 7 | She had been expecting a small , dusty room filled with paintings draped in cloths that were thick with dust , where air would have a musty scent of old canvas and decay . |
| 8 | She is seen to suffer for what she did , and Mary , the other sister , likewise ‘ paid heavily ’ : let down by an Indian student with whom she had been having a long affair . |
| 9 | She claimed she had been having a passionate affair with Mary Jo 's husband Joey , 36 . |
| 10 | She had been having a little innocent fun . |
| 11 | True to the word , she had been adding a full bottle to her small garden pond on a weekly basis , for the past month . |
| 12 | She had been rehearsing a new song on the way to the Ritz , but did n't know who wrote it . |
| 13 | At this point the young man , who had been reading a folded newspaper , looked up and said in a slightly truculent voice , ‘ Excuse me , madam , but that 's my pudding you 're about to eat . ’ |
| 14 | The Harp , who had been chasing a fifth consecutive Division One title , were also thrown out of the Queensferry Sports Challenge Cup and this decision was upheld by the Coast FA . |
| 15 | Meanwhile the warden 's cat , who had been enjoying a light snack in the dustbin , saw Emily , saw the milk , and that is all I can remember , it happened so quickly . |
| 16 | For this search I teamed up with two young friends , both experienced detector users , who had been searching a nearby farm and thus knew the area well . |
| 17 | Henri reached the cave mouth first , shortly followed by Mait , Carrefour , and finally Richmann , who had been keeping a rear guard . |
| 18 | Susan , who had been working a local boarding kennel where she was particularly involved with Bernese Mountain and German Shepherd dogs , has two Great Danes of her own called Buddy and Holly ! |
| 19 | It had already been decided that Hayling was to remain as chief executive , and everyone who had been doing a specific job for the company was invited to carry on . |
| 20 | ‘ You mean , someone who had been having a lesbian affair with Eddie ? |
| 21 | They had been crossing a scree ; there had been many loose stones , and footing was difficult , but surely at that point they had been traversing a gentler slope , and her employer had actually been standing on a flattish stretch of granite when she had fallen . |
| 22 | After hearing that they had been attending a high school graduation party , they were released by the judge on the condition that they were each driven to their parents ' home exactly as they appeared in court — with only a blanket for |
| 23 | One moment they had been crossing a burning glade of shoulder-high grass in the full glare of the sun and the next they descended abruptly into a dark , silent , mysterious world where the air was cool and moist , the earth soft and spongy underfoot , and dazzling orchids blazed suddenly among the deep green undergrowth . |
| 24 | Most of the ‘ masters ’ of torture said that they had been fighting a desperate unseen war , whose atmosphere could not be imagined by people from democracies . |
| 25 | As recently as September 1990 it had been expecting a 2.4 per cent growth for 1991 . |
| 26 | Since then it had been showing a worrying tendency , when Rincewind was feeling rundown or especially threatened , to try to get itself said . |
| 27 | He had been expecting a great difference , but not the extent of the hostility that had greeted him and the reality of a giant Worm wielding enormous electrical energy . |
| 28 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |
| 29 | Only then did he fully realize that he had been experiencing a mild dull pressure in the head , as well as the nausea , physical and mental fatigue . |
| 30 | He had been serving a 20-year term in Nicosia 's central prison . |