Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 2 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 3 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 4 | He knew he had to turn his back on Crevecoeur , dreading the day he would see physical signs that SHe had been working . |
| 5 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 6 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |
| 7 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 8 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 9 | The Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board went into liquidation last month amid allegations that it had been living beyond its means . |
| 10 | Ali had been arrested in April 1990 amidst allegations that he had been plotting to overthrow the government , but was acquitted of terrorism charges in December . |
| 11 | The Commission subsequently issued an interim measures decision which , amongst other things , required Akzo 's UK subsidiary to return to the profit levels that it had been applying before the alleged threats were made and implemented . |
| 12 | Rafiq , for example , who had not changed out of the grubby overalls that he had been wearing on the day of Robert 's interview , seemed to spend most of his time painting the walls of his classroom . |
| 13 | The former concept had a crucial historical advantage at the birth of mechanics ; Western thinkers approaching things as materials which stay put until the craftsman or builder reaches for them , would not have started trying to measure how the inert is moved by external forces if they had been thinking in terms of inherently active ch'i . |
| 14 | The hijackers , who told reporters that they had been attempting to gain publicity for the pro-democracy cause in Myanma , pleaded guilty in Bangkok Criminal Court on Jan. 30 , 1990 . |
| 15 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 16 | Only hours before she had been trying to pull herself together and thinking she might be winning ; now the future was an aching black void . |
| 17 | Terry had written out a very detailed plan for a farm-school project for juvenile offenders that he had been working on for almost two years . |
| 18 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
| 19 | Sirhan was immediately arrested , and apparently confessed to his interrogators that he had been acting on his own to avenge the Haram al-Sharif massacre . |
| 20 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 21 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 22 | Earlier this month Bear Stearns , the New York investment bank , distributed 10 million shares that it had been holding as part of a deferred payment plan . |
| 23 | Erm and so therefore er they , they knew tools that they had been using since the period of the war , erm were gradually being overtaken by the new types of ceramic tools . |
| 24 | In a recent South African trial resulting from a rail accident , the drivers concerned denied responsibility on the grounds that they had been working compulsory 18-hour shifts . |
| 25 | Why hide from him the facts that she had been coming since ? |
| 26 | It gave her great qualms that it had been lying in the hall since the morning 's post , as if it had an atmosphere capable of permeating the whole house . |
| 27 | Cameraman Martyn Colbeck , our Russian and Tadjik helpers and I had been filming in the mountains and soda lakes of the eastern Pamirs , a few miles from the Chinese border . |
| 28 | A BORDON woman drove home from Four Marks after she had been drinking because she was anxious to get home to her child , Alton magistrates were told . |