Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilde , she argued , was in a state of insanity owing to the shock to his self-esteem of prison , ‘ and the exposure of the abnormal and filthy practises which he had been indulging in with stable boys ’ . |
| 2 | It was a kind of verse at which he himself excelled — there are those who say that it is to be found just under the surface of some of his apparently " serious " poetry — and Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats has the spirit , if not the content , of the Bolovian stanzas which he had been writing since his early twenties . |
| 3 | I took a drink from one of the twenty-four plastic gallon containers which I had been collecting for two years . |
| 4 | Additionally , there may be a number of general domestic or luxury items which you had been promising yourself for some time and the only question is one of actual timing , i.e. determining the right moment to buy . |
| 5 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 6 | Molotov concluded the parallel negotiations which he had been conducting with German representatives and thus secured two years grace while partitioning Poland with Nazi Germany . |
| 7 | The head explained that the school had a lower/middle/ upper division and the lower school head briefly explained that the children were going to show the parents and new children what they had been doing . |
| 8 | The American people told him at the polls what they had been screaming from the rooftops for two years . |