Example sentences of "[be] [conj] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His injuries were worse than they would have been if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 2 | A second and earlier poem Moliant Cadwallon ( ‘ In Praise of Cadwallon ’ ) , possibly by Cadwallon 's bard , Afan Ferddig , celebrates Cadwallon 's victorious progress against Eadwine ‘ the deceitful ’ after his return from Ireland , where he may have been in exile , though an alternative possibility is that he had been gathering reinforcements there . |
| 3 | In the launderette it was warm and cosy ; here Maggie made friends and fans and she had inconsequential conversations which mysteriously made her a member of the local community in a way she had never been when she had been fighting for the area 's well-being . |
| 4 | What proved to be the trouble was that they had been munching handfuls of powdered soap . |
| 5 | Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to . |
| 6 | Her boast was that she had been dancing at every RAF and American air force station within a 30-mile radius , and that she would n't look at any male with a rank lower than Squadron Leader or the American equivalent . |
| 7 | I felt that way myself — the difference was that he had been living longer . |
| 8 | His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant . |
| 9 | His excuse was that he had been praying . |
| 10 | And who was it who said that when he agreed to play the Devil in the Witches of Eastwick , it was because he had been practising for the role all his life ? |
| 11 | It was after he had been spending a Sunday with her that the accident happened . |