Example sentences of "[pers pn] had [be] [v-ing] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been wearing blue faded jeans , and a white sweat shirt flattened against the pointed nipples and the upturned breasts ; the cotton seeming too thin a protection against the freshening onshore breeze . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The US concession to cease production was a major factor , since it had been developing new binary systems but had not produced enough to replace the existing 25,000 tonnes of stocks . |
| 4 | He had been doodling obsessive box-like designs , a nest of interlocking right-angled lines locking out all possibility of error or surprise . |
| 5 | On closer questioning it was found that he had been harbouring strong transsexual feelings for some while and that the injury resulted from an urge to initiate a sex change . |
| 6 | Four of them had been taking non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) for a mean period of 10 ( range one to 18 ) months for arthritis and remarkably one of these had DU in spite of having pentagastrin fast achlorhydria due to pernicious anaemia . |