Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions . |
| 2 | The officers had been telling her about this particular woman who was very lonely . |
| 3 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 4 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 5 | Minutes before the poison he had taken took its final effect , a friend broke into the room to tell Stephen that a government maintenance had been granted him of two guineas a week . |
| 6 | Most of the students investigated in this study were non-traditional in that they either possessed qualifications which met the general entrance requirements of the institution but had been gained them in non-traditional ways ( i.e. by other than full time attendance at secondary school ) , or they did not meet the requirement but had other qualifications or evidence of attainment acceptable to the institution in question . |
| 7 | Additionally , there may be a number of general domestic or luxury items which you had been promising yourself for some time and the only question is one of actual timing , i.e. determining the right moment to buy . |
| 8 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 9 | Most youths and even small boys wore a strip of hide around their wrists or ankles : this had been given them with appropriate blessing to bring them success when they became warriors . |
| 10 | The salutation seemed to open infinite possibilities , and expressed a recognition of his right to travel ; he felt welcomed , and also saw that he had been given something of inestimable value . |
| 11 | No doubt the other woman had been regarding her with covert suspicion all along — and who could wonder at her resentment when her lover was such a fickle character ? |
| 12 | Mr Fennell was worried because he thought nobody came to meet you , ’ he said , and she knew by his expression that the ancient tyrant had been upbraiding him on this account . |
| 13 | Although she had been expecting something like this , Robbie 's mouth was suddenly dry , her tongue cleaving to the roof of her mouth . |
| 14 | Another man said that Portadown had been expecting something like this after the recent attacks in Lurgan . |
| 15 | She had been watching him for half an hour staring out at the view , motionless . |
| 16 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 17 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 18 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 19 | Ludens was by now , in an ordinary sense , more used to being with Marcus , less afraid of ‘ saying the wrong thing ’ , and had resolved today to ask a crude question which had been troubling him for some time . |
| 20 | There was a time when this entire hillside had been covered in forest but , being closest to home , the trees had been felled one after another for building and firewood . |
| 21 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 22 | It was ten o'clock and she had been ignoring it for half an hour . |
| 23 | Tulagai was flushed and it was apparent that Jotan had been baiting him for some time . |
| 24 | All the way home , pedalling furiously , she had been nerving herself for this confrontation . |
| 25 | That had been to strengthen her for all the troubles and problems she 'd had to deal with . |
| 26 | I had been preparing myself for that moment for a long time , he typed , as Harsnet had written . |