Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [pron] had [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the last half hour or so she had been pacing the room like a caged animal , insisting that the door should be kept ajar and the window opened wide . |
| 2 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 3 | For her to have gone off with him like that showed she must still care for him and yet she had been looking so adoringly at Fernando on the yacht . |
| 4 | By then Tony Elliott was rumbling along and previously It had been providing that function . ’ |
| 5 | The consequent reduction in his income had meant that he could not afford to run a car any longer , and therefore he had been seeing less and less of his girlfriend , who lived 15 miles away . |