Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] had [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jim McCarron , the committee chairman , said yesterday that Dr Forwell 's report underlined what politicians had been saying about Glasgow 's health record for a long time . |
| 2 | Rachel had become so lost in her thoughts that she suddenly realised her father had been talking to her and she had n't heard a word . |
| 3 | Beeson , the England captain , scored his first victory over the world No. 9 , Zarak Jahan Khan , with one of the finest performances of his career , and then complained about the remarks he claimed his opponent had been making during the rallies . |
| 4 | • It was the year , too , when I decided my fish had been eating better than I had . |
| 5 | I knew my sons had been saying that of course Mum would cry — it was a dead cert ! |
| 6 | ‘ He said he thought his mummy had been having car trouble because she had n't turned up . |
| 7 | Owen knew his parents had been having aromatherapy massage , so I think it made him feel grown-up and important . |
| 8 | Ranulf knew his master had been scribbling his own memoranda , trying to make sense of the mystery which confronted them . |
| 9 | She wished she knew what Nahum had been going to say just before he died . |
| 10 | A few miles later , Rogers asked what Gabriel had been doing in the church . |
| 11 | Topaz had dreaded the moment since she first realized what Timothy had been working up to . |
| 12 | His wife Ann-Marie Turnpenny , of Sheerwater Avenue , Darlington , said their marriage had been going through a difficult period . |
| 13 | Lady Bell said her son had been returning to his Land Rover , parked on the opposite side of the road to the farm . |
| 14 | His father , John William Gannon , said his son had been living with him since he split up with his wife in January . |
| 15 | Later she wondered what Brian had been doing on the towpath , forgetting that his favourite restaurant commanded a view of the canal . |