Example sentences of "had [be] doing [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only later did she learn that what Rosemary had been doing back in Hazelbury that Saturday when Sebastian had met her had been to come and tell her parents personally that Derek had moved out from the flat they shared and was now living with someone else . |
| 2 | He had been doing road duty when the first wagons rolled past , with a US Cavalry Escort , and he had looked upon the face of the Josephite leader and known that these were the last days of the world . |
| 3 | The human members of the community are here mainly because out in the commercial world , they had been doing things they did not want to do , using skills they wished they did not have . |
| 4 | Charles defended the man stoutly , and asked instead , what the hell the driver thought he had been doing careering up and down the lochside like that . |
| 5 | All he could remember was that TOWs were shipped at some point ; that ‘ the price asked for the military was twelve million two ’ ; that the aircraft could turn round and abort the delivery if the hostages were not released , which he thought was ‘ a most unusual thing ’ ; and that it was definitely not ‘ the Khomeini ’ with whom he had been doing business . |
| 6 | Jones had been doing research funded by the US Department of Energy ( DOE ) since May 1986 , had hints of neutrons and by September 1988 was in the process of starting to use a neutron detector sensitive enough to measure their energies and determine whether indeed they came from fusion . |
| 7 | Michael Jones of the Department of History had been doing research on these buildings for several years and with his colleague , Gwyn Meirion Jones of the City of London Polytechnic they tackled the challenge with alacrity . |