Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] they had [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 2 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 3 | The authorities claimed that they had been living illegally on land which had been allocated to others , in Khartoum suburbs such as Karmuta where large numbers of mud-brick houses had reportedly now been vacated and then destroyed by bulldozers . |
| 4 | Reading it , the British discovered that they had been speaking the imperial equivalent of prose all their lives . |
| 5 | She subsequently discovered that they had been having an affair for several months . |
| 6 | It was then that I discovered that they had been keeping our group under surveillance and noting down the registration numbers of cars parked outside the meeting place . |
| 7 | However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age . |
| 8 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 9 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 10 | Bastian , the independent scholar/dealer , who organised the show together with another independent curator , Werner Spies , says that he is most pleased with the reaction of an old couple from Dresden , who on the first day said that they had been longing to see Picasso 's work for forty years . |
| 11 | Most of the ‘ masters ’ of torture said that they had been fighting a desperate unseen war , whose atmosphere could not be imagined by people from democracies . |
| 12 | It was alleged that at first the railway company denied that they had been travelling on the train at all , and it was indeed suggested that the two children were chance victims of the holocaust and they happened to be wandering by the railway at the time . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |