Example sentences of "had [adv] been [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 2 | I was sorry for Jennifer but they had only been going out for a month or so , and not terribly seriously . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A devolution of power had also been going on at home and all our policy must take account of it . |
| 8 | They had clearly been leading up to this all week . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |