Example sentences of "and [noun pl] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should he have mentioned the strange symptoms and side-effects he had been observing in his own case ? |
| 2 | I knew that I was fearful of describing the girls I 'd met , because I did n't want to fall into the same traps and judgements we had been talking about ; on the other hand , I was not being totally honest in leaving out their descriptions , because in fact how they looked interested me very much . |
| 3 | She too , in spite of the dances and concerts they had been attending lately , knew far fewer people at the station than Rose . |
| 4 | Never had anything been so well trumpeted to me ; surely there had been an element of hyperbole from so many colleagues and friends who had been going to the jamboree for years ? |
| 5 | Rain met people who had been avoiding her for months and others she had been dodging . |