Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] had be [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 4 | Christian leaders who had been contemplating such a move have been backing off . |
| 5 | They were the two he had talked to on the previous search , the ones who had been taking such pains with the dovecot . |