Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [v-ing] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molly had been laying out the lunch on the terrace . |
| 2 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |
| 3 | While we talked Miss Sowerby had been cleaning up the patient with the head wound and , as the man prepared to leave , Reid cried to him , ‘ Head feel'um better ? ’ |
| 4 | The younger John claimed that Langton had been carrying on an adulterous relationship with his stepmother Joan . |
| 5 | Parore had been heading down the leg side — too far , ex-Central Districts keeper Jack Vernon assured me later — and had to change direction . |
| 6 | The Life of Johnson makes plain how Boswell had been staking out the ground since their early acquaintance , making notes immediately after each meeting of what he himself was eventually to ‘ consider the peculiar value ’ of the Life , ‘ that is , the quantity it contains of Johnson 's conversation ’ . |
| 7 | Till now , Ken Livingstone had been putting up a good show , joking about John Smith serving as his deputy and arguing for defence cuts to pay for benefits rather than tax increases . |
| 8 | While Charles had been withdrawing northward the sloop Prince Charles , formerly , until taken as a prize , His Majesty 's Ship Hazard , had been on its way to him from France with some Irish troops , arms and , most important of all , £13,600 in gold . |
| 9 | Frances had been walking along a pavement in Oxford when she was hit from behind . |
| 10 | Despite excellent character-witnesses , among them Elizabeth , who delivered an impassioned plea on her maid 's behalf , Justine stood condemned by one piece of circumstantial evidence : a locket containing a picture of her late mistress had been found in her belongings — a locket which the child William had been wearing only the day before the murder . |
| 11 | Professor Briggs had been investigating how a ‘ natural ’ language might be used in computer processing . |
| 12 | In the meantime , Pennethorne had been working out the details of his proposals for the Foreign Office . |
| 13 | During the time that Ted and Jim were working on the engine , our chief researcher Bill Welbourne had been finding out a few details about the aircraft . |