Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] had been [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maggie remembered how the building had been rocking on its foundations . |
| 2 | The mother-of-three had been sunbathing on the hottest day of 1990 . |
| 3 | A man in a dark suit across the aisle had been working on business papers since New York . |
| 4 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 5 | The rain had been beating on him for hours , on him and his comrades , not only here but wherever they had been when they met their deaths ; their clothes , their very hair , had a flattened , dead look . |
| 6 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
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| 8 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 9 | The cast and crew of The Viking had been filming on location and , finding herself for once with little to do , she 'd taken a break to watch the great Dane Jacobsen in action . |
| 10 | The couple had been lying on it . |