Example sentences of "had [adv] been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am still puzzled , to this day , as to why we did n't simply demand a refund and leave ; probably because we had all been looking forward to getting away so much that we were prepared to tolerate anything . |
| 2 | They had all been sitting quietly for some time , waiting . |
| 3 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 4 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 5 | Christopher had obviously been going there for some years . |
| 6 | These steps into a wider world were part of a great process of expansion by western Europe that had already been going on for decades . |
| 7 | Army bomb disposal experts arrived at Dorton late this afternoon to join the search of the trackside that had already been going on for four and a half hours . |
| 8 | ‘ By this time I had already been fooling around with sound on sound recording , and then in 1971 some aunt that I never even knew left a small house to me and my two brothers . |
| 9 | When the comm blinked into life , I saw face that I vaguely recognized — a Famlio enforcer named Pulvidon , who had lately been rising rapidly through the ranks . |
| 10 | My head was throbbing and the shoulder was beginning to ache from the kicking , which had probably been going on for some time before I came round . |
| 11 | A devolution of power had also been going on at home and all our policy must take account of it . |
| 12 | The defendants admitted that they had both been drinking heavily on the night of the offences . |
| 13 | Inspector Naseby of all people , who had clearly been looking forward to this moment . |
| 14 | They had clearly been leading up to this all week . |
| 15 | He had really been looking forward to seeing her tonight . |
| 16 | But Katabatic had reportedly been working lethargically in the build-up to Newbury and his trainer is now much happier with the 10-year-old 's general well-being . |
| 17 | However , Katabatic had reportedly been working lethargically in the build-up to Newbury and his trainer , Andy Turnell , is now much happier with the ten-year-old . |
| 18 | The horse , who had steadily been moving along in a quiet way , gave a strange little leap and she realised she had inadvertently dug her heels into his side . |
| 19 | And Miss Haines , as Clara suddenly realized , with a curious tremor of conviction , had actually been hanging around in the corridor waiting for her to emerge . |
| 20 | This development had certainly been increasing steadily since the war . |