Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] had be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I found out my kids had been going into someone 's house and coming out with money . |
| 2 | I will store the incident with the others ; this one feels like the straw my back had been waiting for . |
| 3 | So it was obvious that my father had been thinking of this long before . |
| 4 | When I asked the headmistress of a junior school my daughter had been attending about the racist remarks children at the school had been making her answer was well-meaning and typical : ‘ Asking them to say thank you and please or asking them not to swear is one thing but asking them not to say ‘ nigger ’ or ‘ wog ’ or ‘ black people stink ’ is quite another . |
| 5 | Cos me and my brother had been working on wagon again . |
| 6 | Donna saw the exhibit her sister had been looking at and crossed to it . |
| 7 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
| 8 | His wife Ann-Marie Turnpenny , of Sheerwater Avenue , Darlington , said their marriage had been going through a difficult period . |
| 9 | Her husband had been serving in the British Merchant Navy on the Russian Convoy run but after 1943 he was receiving psychiatric treatment in Shropshire somewhere for his nerves . |
| 10 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 11 | In any case , there was more than enough to do in repairing the faults of the existing system and correcting the injustices which they and their predecessors had been denouncing since the 1920s . |
| 12 | Eight detainees at Oukacha prison in Casablanca , on hunger strike since Nov. 26 , were on Dec. 25 granted their demands for political prisoner status , the right to family visits and the right to read newspapers ; their families had been fasting in support at the offices of the Moroccan Union of Labour . |
| 13 | Their relationship had been coming to an end and Miss Turner 's parents had arranged for her to go on a holiday to America to deter her from seeing him . |
| 14 | The fact was that for many years she and her father had been living with a dangerous illusion ; and the illusion was that they were entirely virtuous in their endeavours , entirely on the angels ' side . |
| 15 | Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word . |
| 16 | Her daughter had been sleeping with boys , and men since she was fourteen . |
| 17 | Mrs Singh was upset ; she felt rejected by the school her children had been attending for five years . |
| 18 | Meanwhile their investigation had received help from Roxie Farmer 's reluctant admission that her brother had been staying with her , and that he had gone off one day , borrowing her former husband 's bike , and had come back with blood on him . |
| 19 | Leith mentally shook herself to join in the conversation , realising that her mother had been speaking of the wonderful opportunities there were for world-wide travelling these days . |
| 20 | Night after sleepless night , her mother had been thinking about her , while Carolyn slept deep black sleeps and tried to keep her head empty . |
| 21 | During this time , Liz had taken much of the responsibility for the day-to-day running of the business , while her mother had been staying at home to look after her husband who was in poor health . |
| 22 | Miss Gregg told detectives her mother had been waiting for the handyman to call at the time of her death . |
| 23 | Lady Bell said her son had been returning to his Land Rover , parked on the opposite side of the road to the farm . |
| 24 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 25 | His eyes had been feeding on darkness and projections for too long , and now , presented with solid reality , they were befuddled . |
| 26 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 27 | Due to the fact that his marriage had been heading for the rocks ? |
| 28 | Beeson , the England captain , scored his first victory over the world No. 9 , Zarak Jahan Khan , with one of the finest performances of his career , and then complained about the remarks he claimed his opponent had been making during the rallies . |
| 29 | In mitigation Duncan Smith said Stevenson and his friend had been drinking in a pub and decided to take a car to get back home . |
| 30 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |