Example sentences of "it [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'd been running at a loss for years . |
| 2 | The latter manifests itself as smooth , waxy blobs on fins and skin , making the fish look as though it had been swimming under a dripping candle . |
| 3 | Although the Bingham report made serious criticisms of the bank , it had been dealing with a unique situation . |
| 4 | This gave it an influence among the Middle classes which it had never previously enjoyed , while allowing it to maintain the tenuous but important industrial base which it had been creating in the 1920s . |
| 5 | It was raining when Patrick Montgomery Lundy , followed by Jane Bradley , stepped onto Irish soil , and he suddenly remembered his mother telling him that it had been raining on the day she had first come to Ireland , in the May of 1898 . |
| 6 | A site has yet to be secured — although the Mountain View , California-based company said it had been working on the plans for some 18 months — and a choice will be announced within 60 days , according to Sun 's chief financial officer , Kevin Melia . |
| 7 | Luckily the washing machine coped as adequately with Ruth 's clothes as it had been doing for the past six years . |
| 8 | He argued that Dorset should continue to record unmet need as it had been doing in a pilot project , although the decision is so politically sensitive that it has to be given clearance by the politicians at their June committee meeting . |
| 9 | Anyhow , it had been going for a very short time , not very satisfactory , because none of us really were very successful with our machine , and then a … messenger came in to say that a [ radio ] taxi driver had come into No. 10 to say he 's heard everything going on in his taxi in Whitehall . |
| 10 | The second whinnied and moved back a step to graze the spot it had been coveting for the past hour . |
| 11 | It had been lying on the ground ( referent-the paper ) . |
| 12 | The high velvet shoulder of his doublet smelt musty as though it had been lying in a trunk for centuries . |
| 13 | It gave her great qualms that it had been lying in the hall since the morning 's post , as if it had an atmosphere capable of permeating the whole house . |
| 14 | Most damningly of all , Sir Anthony concludes that in 1985 the Department already knew that Barlow Clowes did not maintain proper records , that it had been trading without a licence and that investment watchdogs were worried about the group 's activities . |