Example sentences of "they had [adv] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had also been floating in a jar of pickle in the curiobiological museum down in the cellars of Unseen University , since live salamanders were extinct around the Circle Sea . |
| 2 | They had lain dormant for some years after she had left the cottage , but he knew now they had simply been growing in the warm darkness of his being where love bred … |
| 3 | To some degree they had already been catering for children with special needs . |
| 4 | I saw the evil light in his eyes and knew that so far they had only been playing with me : their real intent was to kill . |
| 5 | The implication of moral blackmail in robbing patient services to pay nurses remained a ghost at the banquet for the media , and for many nurses , who had still to reconcile the jobs they had perhaps been doing for years with the management 's idea of their responsibilities , and the clinical grade to which they aspired . |
| 6 | I felt betrayed ; I had never thought of all my friends noticing my weight , and that they had all been thinking of me as a fat person . |
| 7 | He said he had thought they had all been fighting on the German side because they had all been under a German commander when surrendering . |
| 8 | She asked Nanny what they had all been talking about as Nanny towelled her dry . |
| 9 | They had all been working at stone-gathering , keeping their pageant money out of sight for fear the constables mark them as robbers or miracle-workers . |
| 10 | They had undoubtedly been asking for trouble . |
| 11 | She had taken off her coat , somehow contrived to make herself seem a little dishevelled , as though the two of them had just been snogging on the sofa or something . |