Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [noun prp] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself . |
| 2 | The squadron had been out on a practice bombing exercise and J. had been driving round the perimeter track that afternoon , inspecting the bomb bays of returned aircraft , and came back to park his vehicle in one of the empty hangars . |
| 3 | It had been shortly before the war and Liza had been coming up thirteen . |
| 4 | She , her husband and Byron had been discussing the principal of life and wondered if a living thing could be re-animated before Shelley had the idea of writing a book on this theme . |
| 5 | Sarah told her that her father and John had been discussing the possibility of war with Germany , but they had hastily changed the subject when her mother came in . |
| 6 | Maybe the Fax machine was in one of the outbuildings , but they were the other side of the yard near the barn and Cawthorne had been walking away from them . |
| 7 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 8 | Yet Dysart 's expression reminded him of something else she had said : that Dysart and Clare had been arguing immediately before the explosion ; that there had been friction between them for some time . |
| 9 | Carver and Maya had been fighting . |
| 10 | Honor had prayed that her mother and Ida had been lying , but Mrs Luke , Lady West 's dressmaker , confirmed the tale . |
| 11 | Long before Neil Kinnock let it be known that he had let his membership of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament lapse , the Labour Party and CND had been growing apart . |