Example sentences of "the [noun] [noun prp] had [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the tension Gascoigne had been suffering was suddenly released , and he celebrated by sprinting to the sidelines . |
| 2 | Etna has two summit craters , the Main Crater and the North-East Crater ( both lying along the line of a fissure ) , and the North-East Crater had been showing mild Strombolian activity for many years prior to the 1971 eruption . |
| 3 | Bewilderedly she struggled to remember the words Guy had been muttering , but they had been lost in the half-sleeping state which had dulled her mind , and , later , barely heard over the unfamiliar demands of newly awakened desire . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This was the moment Lynch had been building for all his life . |
| 6 | Before the war Jordan had been importing some 55,000 barrels a day from Iraq at a fixed price of US$16.40 , well below the market rate . |
| 7 | The crisis Branson had been expecting broke in October , when British Airways dropped the price of their cheapest return ticket on the London-New York route from £278 to £259 — only £1 more than Virgin — and began selling tickets ‘ subject to government confirmation ’ . |
| 8 | Graham Hunsley , defending , told the court Melia had been roaming round the country for about a month and stole the jeans after becoming concerned about his scruffy appearance . |
| 9 | It was absolutely delicious and a welcome change from the meat Marcus had been giving me lately . |
| 10 | After the failure of the 1754 conference Braddock had been appointed to the newly-created post of commander-in-chief in America , and he rapidly put together a force which marched north-west through the area Washington had been surveying towards Fort Duquesne , just to the south of Lake Erie . |
| 11 | Erika remembered the Watchword Omi had been reading on the day when Karl had come . |
| 12 | Ever since they had started the journey Christopher had been chewing barley sugar . |
| 13 | The only way this impinged on the message Macmillan had been taking up to the generals in the front-line was that they might now have to prepare even more urgently for military operations to reinforce allied policy . |
| 14 | The Walther Devlin had been holding on his knee appeared above the table now and he fired again , shooting Eggar through the right hand . |
| 15 | In the meantime Edward had been thinking too . |
| 16 | Two fur traders from the French settlement of New France on the banks of the St. Lawrence had been trying to convince their employers that the best way to develop the trade was to set up bases on Hudson Bay to which the Indians could come in their canoes down all the rivers that flowed into the Bay . |
| 17 | See , the very place where the mighty throng and the Empress Judith Had been standing , and with them the boy Charles himself ! |
| 18 | Its withers will never win any of the races Ronnie had been telling himself about , and he is reluctant to return from this long , defeated , dark-thoughted walk to break the bad news or his adventure to his wife and daughters . |
| 19 | When she was most irritated by Caro 's holier-than-thou , most nearly offended by how stupid/insensitive Caro must think her , with her ‘ what a world you live in ’ , and was thinking ‘ How young , how predictable , how limited you are , ’ came the twist in the conversation , the unexpected note , that looking back along the line of the conversation , was the note Caro had been heading for all the time . |
| 20 | A baby — and the designer Edouard had been searching for so long . |
| 21 | He said abruptly , rather as if he had been thinking about something quite different all the time Nick had been talking — ‘ She may be a little upset , I 'm afraid . |
| 22 | All the time Ward had been talking to the receptionist his head had been half turned to the street doors , which were wide open , framing an incessant movement of people in an iridescent haze of hot sunlight . |
| 23 | At the time Patten had been sitting in his Smith Square office , gently smoothing the bags beneath his eyes . |