Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] had been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 2 | 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route were now transferred to the Sutton route , to work alongside the J type cars ( 1s-16s ) , four of which were withdrawn and sent to Brixton Hill . |
| 3 | Some anomalies which had been arising as a result of the previous piecemeal evolution of means-tested benefit were eliminated . |
| 4 | For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole . |
| 5 | In desperation , the previous week , he had ordered the children to select a favourite passage from books he had been reading with them , write it out in their best handwriting and then add some comments on what they enjoyed about the piece and about the book in general . |
| 6 | Although Eliot considered this idea a good one , especially in view of the articles I had been writing for the New English Weekly ( for example , ‘ Italy must Choose ; and ‘ An Open Letter to Ansaldo ’ , which Mairet had forwarded to the spokesman in question and also to the Vatican ) , he felt that such a book issued in time of war , would need official backing . |
| 7 | Three Swedish engineers who had been working in Kuwait received seven-year sentences on Sept. 20 after also being accused of illegal entry . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | During the last minutes she had been talking with extreme rapidity in a light high voice . |
| 11 | Am hour later the Emperor 's coach passed the corpse , disturbing the flies which had been crawling over the dead Lieutenant 's face and laying their eggs in his blood-filled mouth and nostrils . |
| 12 | As had happened before with the labour education programs , the organisations which had been working with Highlander , and which had grown in depth of perspective and experience , took over the running of their own grass roots educational activities . |
| 13 | The Schuman Plan was based on ideas which had been circulating for some time but was devised in detail by Jean Monnet , who was in charge of France 's economic modernisation programme . |
| 14 | An agricultural relief committee was established in 1983 by a handful of young agricultural engineers , some of whom had already been working with ‘ the voluntary work committees ’ , a network of skilled and unskilled workers which had been operating since the mid-1970s . |
| 15 | However , after a further round of talks with Saddam Hussain on Oct. 28 , he left for Moscow the following day , his only apparent success being the Iraqi agreement to allow the return in the coming weeks of some 1,000 Soviet nationals who had been working in Iraq . |
| 16 | Her paternal family is opposed to the sect and some years before these events Miss T. had been reunited with her paternal grandmother and her father and for the past two years she had been living in circumstances which would not be approved by the sect . |
| 17 | By the end of the " thirties , Aunt Tossie wondered for how many years she had been paying for interesting yearlings , and with very uninteresting results . |
| 18 | They wheeled him rapidly into Resus. , Kathleen snapping out instructions right , left and centre , but as they peeled back the blanket to examine him , even Kathleen after all the years she had been working in A and E was shocked at the extent of his injuries . |
| 19 | The wool gave off a friendly smell of the dogs who had been lying on it . |
| 20 | I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much . |
| 21 | Abie Klugman had long grown used to the taunt — it was Aronson 's stock joke for all of the ten years they had been lodging with Mrs Neumann , and he no longer minded it . |
| 22 | Like the GenSyn apes they had been experimenting upon . |
| 23 | In any case , if Parson Woodforde 's manservant Ben Leggatt found himself temporarily ‘ out of pocket ’ , all he had to do was to pawn the best pair of trousers he had been wearing over the weekend and redeem them in time for church on Sunday . |
| 24 | Should he have mentioned the strange symptoms and side-effects he had been observing in his own case ? |
| 25 | The last few days he had been getting on her nerves . |
| 26 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
| 27 | After that they had begun to encounter the behavioural problems which had been occurring in Reykjavik and which are so depressingly familiar to us all . |
| 28 | There can be little doubt that Picasso was excited by the work that Braque brought back to Paris from l'Estaque in which he was drawing such original answers from the questions he had been putting to Cézanne 's art . |
| 29 | The company had wanted him to transfer to London , in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school . |
| 30 | 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 . |