Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan was designed to give France the initiative in German affairs which had been slipping away from her . |
| 2 | The rooms provided were far too small for the thousands of English scholars who were crammed into them , and the originally excessive numbers were heavily augmented by gate-crashing French students who had been hanging around the fringes of the course all week trying to pick up girls at the Lycée doors . |
| 3 | This confirmed rumours which had been circulating in previous months . |
| 4 | Woolton took on to his staff a small group of civil servants who had been working out the implications of the Beveridge report , and also the Uthwatt report on land values . |
| 5 | The blinding headaches he had been experiencing in recent weeks were taking their toll , and he looked grey and drawn when he arrived home . |
| 6 | Eliot , though , is determined , like the anthropological writers he had been reading , to make plain the root of the custom , which he does in the next line , ‘ And flowers of deflowered maids ’ . |
| 7 | Before the last Test it seemed that Gooch would return home , annoyed at an article written about his South African connections by Lester Bird , the Deputy Prime Minister of Antigua , and tired of the hostile receptions he had been getting from press and public . |
| 8 | The first-class passengers on my train were mainly elderly Australian couples who had been visiting relatives . |
| 9 | Somehow she managed to take a proper breath , not the little shallow gasps she had been giving up to now . |
| 10 | Three Swedish engineers who had been working in Kuwait received seven-year sentences on Sept. 20 after also being accused of illegal entry . |
| 11 | Our conversation moved cautiously round the subject of corruption in public life , and I quoted Burke , whose Thoughts on the Present Discontents I had been studying , to the effect that wisdom consisted in part in deciding how much evil to tolerate . |
| 12 | On the way back to the Hankses ' cottage with Anna , Seb and the navvies met one of the gipsy women who had been enquiring after the missing girl in the village . |
| 13 | Rookies were all the same in the beginning , eager to please and desperate to be judged favourably by their superiors , but within the space of a few months they had become as bitter and cynical as the seasoned policemen they had been trying to impress . |
| 14 | The ex-London United cars which had been working on the Croydon — Mitcham route were now transferred to the Sutton route , to work alongside the J type cars ( 1s-16s ) , four of which were withdrawn and sent to Brixton Hill . |
| 15 | I 'm sorry , ’ he repeated , and the smile he gave her was so gentle that the angry words she had been going to utter died , locked somewhere in her throat . |
| 16 | I must have known that those were the very advantages I had been denying myself in denying myself food . |
| 17 | The ideas carried in the individual features , including an end to mass unemployment , a planned economy , a comprehensive system of social security and health care , a clean sweep of all that was old-fashioned and squalid in housing and the urban legacy of the industrial revolution , and many more , represented a virtual glossary of progressive views current in the Britain of the 1930s and its contributors a fair cross-section of the high-minded and socially concerned individuals who had been advocating these and similar ideas well before the outbreak of war . |
| 18 | Blindly she moved back to her desk again , to the neat pages she had been stacking when Rob had come into the room . |
| 19 | The Greek revolts which had been going on since the early eighteen twenties . |
| 20 | These children on the whole had greater problems and cried more than the Hungarian children who had been coming earlier and for longer . |
| 21 | In October , following a long silence , he finished two more of the autobiographical letters he had been writing for Tom Poole , providing in one of them , the most deeply-felt of all , his loving recollections of his father , and an account of the stormy night by the River Otter when he had almost died . |
| 22 | Whoever expected the little grey devils I had been assaulting with white arrows and rolling with white healing balls to reappear in my lung ? |
| 23 | They proposed getting rid of the philistines found along Wardour Street , London 's Film Row , wiping out the middle-class personnel who had been creeping into the director 's chair , or introducing a bunch of amateurs into the business . |
| 24 | Its chief executive , Neville Bain , said he is seeing many more inquiries from retailers currently buying from Far Eastern producers , while some continental suppliers which had been undercutting British producers are being forced to increase prices . |
| 25 | The release of dissident Fang Lizhi in June 1990 [ see above ] was an important symbolic gesture and helped Bush win his battle with congressional critics who had been attempting to block the renewal of China 's most-favoured-nation ( MFN ) trading status . |
| 26 | But already her mind was full of him , her triumph shrinking , slipping between her fingers like that future of silk and satin and feathered bonnets she had been dreaming about so eagerly an hour ago . |
| 27 | All were second-hand , but they were far better than the stinking rags he had been wearing . |
| 28 | The Battersea Congress of the Party , to which this complaint was later addressed , gave official backing to a scheme which had been projected for some time , a Revolutionary Trade Union Opposition to unite the various unofficial movements which had been growing up in many important unions . |
| 29 | Some Moslem students who had been visiting the Mosque were set upon as they left by a much larger gang of Copts and in the fracas at least one of the students appeared to have been killed . |
| 30 | It was thought extremely clever tactics when one team pretended not to be taking part in a tournament , and only joined in late in the day when all the other knights who had been fighting since soon after sunrise were exhausted . |