Example sentences of "had [adv] [be] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just then my sister , who had secretly been listening outside the forge , called to Joe through one of the windows , ‘ You fool ! |
| 2 | Spoiled and wilful she might be at times , but the emotional distance between them caused by the difference in their ages and their forced separation in childhood had slowly been closing over the past two years . |
| 3 | The main stumbling block had been the appointment of its chair [ see pp. 37712 ; 37777 ; 37858 ] , a problem temporarily resolved on Dec. 11 when Prince Norodom Sihanouk , who had hitherto been pressing for the chairmanship , called on the SNC to " stop talking about the chairmanship and vice-chairmanship … and have the 12 SNC members , on an equal footing , work for peace " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Time and its buried hoard , however , had only been waiting in the wings , and it was now that the priest was discovering just how perfidious Time could be . |
| 6 | Then it had suddenly been galloping over the sleeping bodies of a large wolf pack and , again , its mad speed had been such that the furious yelping had been left far behind . |
| 7 | Falconer had apparently been playing with the letters of the name , breaking them up , distancing each from the other . |
| 8 | During the sixteenth century the Portuguese had already been profiting from the gold being produced in West Africa and Japan . |
| 9 | Brook , small , breezy and soft-spoken had already been padding among the assembly , shaking hands with a grip curiously flabby for one whose theatrical identity is so startlingly defined . |
| 10 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |
| 11 | One new research interest had already been developing in the mid-seventies from my earlier work in semantics . |
| 12 | I had just been reading in the Daily Minute about the string of beatings and manslaughters in Rosalind Court : the night before last a Jap computer expert and a German dentist had been found in a parking lot with their faces stomped off . |
| 13 | ‘ It could be the killer was somebody who had just been passing by the apartment block . ’ |
| 14 | Now she saw that he had just been dealing with the easy , practical part first . |
| 15 | When you and Chantal arrived at that accommodation agency I had just been talking to the proprietor . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | All she knew was that she was turning into McAllister again , Dr Neil 's pert and lively maid , and that this was the haven which she had unconsciously been seeking in the months since Havvie Blaine had assaulted her . |
| 18 | Most of these new arrivals had reached the area with the deliveries of Hurricanes by H.M.S. ‘ Furious ’ as already recounted , and had thus been languishing in the Pilots ' Pool at Ismailia , awaiting posting to a unit . |
| 19 | And then , of course , six years ago she had still been reeling from the shock of Tony 's death . |
| 20 | Returning to our historical outline and intimately connected with this new notion of female impurity , was the development of an increased rigidity in attitude toward and definition of function within the family group — something which had gradually been happening before the sixth century but which was accelerated and refined by the experience of the exile . |
| 21 | Franca decided that Alison had probably been drinking on the plane and was already a bit tipsy . |
| 22 | He watched Gerald Kaufman buy a copy of the Evening Standard ; he had probably been lunching with the BBC . |
| 23 | Standing there in shade , I observed the man and woman who had also been eating in the hotel emerge with their child . |
| 24 | The pathologist had also been working since the previous afternoon , a task many would find horribly gruesome but which to him was more full of detective fascination than any other he could imagine . |
| 25 | There were a few people who allowed themselves to feel the pain of loss , the pain of betrayal , when they began to understand what had really been happening in the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | 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 … |
| 27 | He had reportedly been pressing for the USA to distance itself from the peace negotiations and he was therefore opposed to a Washington venue ; he was also known to support a Middle Eastern venue to emphasize the regional , as opposed to the international , nature of the conflict . |
| 28 | Unfortunately , one of the Sheriff 's impromptu posse had earlier been drinking with the brothers and had noticed George 's notorious mutilated thumb . |
| 29 | Jane had indeed been hinting at the opportunity for her husband 's murder , but she could not admit as much . |
| 30 | The range of goods they were able to carry was welcomed in the area , as well as lunchtime sandwich facilities which had previously been missing in the neighbourhood . |