Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] [prep] the last " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |
| 2 | On the seminary hill a strange edifice had been constructing over the last previous months . |
| 3 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 4 | Her East Coast American accent deceived most people , it was so like , and yet in some ways so unlike , that of the society in which she had been living for the last six months . |
| 5 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 6 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 7 | Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh . |
| 8 | Mike noticed a group of heavy gamblers , most of them Greek , move towards the baccarat room , where the Sultan of Rupolei had been losing for the last hour . |
| 9 | Now , however , she sat up in bed and wondered , as she had been wondering for the last few days , what had happened to the spider . |
| 10 | The murder had been ordered by Hendrique , for whom Kyle had been working during the last five years . |