Example sentences of "had be [v-ing] at [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The group had been drinking at a nearby pub in Uckington , Glos . |
| 2 | You will also receive half your husband 's graduated pension and all of his additional pension if he contributed to SERPS , so long as this would not take your pension above the maximum you could have had if you had been earning at the upper earnings limit throughout . |
| 3 | He had been writing at the big desk , and had come round it to examine the patient . |
| 4 | They had been staying at a 16th century chateau near Compeigne . |
| 5 | But she said Lilian had been working at the old people 's home just down the road . |
| 6 | As she had come round the corner of the house from putting her bicycle in the old stable block , Inspector Blakelock had been standing at the front door almost as if he were waiting for her . |
| 7 | Robin-Anne had been staring at the dark sea , but now she turned her big eyes back to me . |
| 8 | He wished that he could have listened to their conversation , but he would not have made much of it if he had been sitting at the next table . |
| 9 | Adele Venetz , the sister that Wayne always thought of as the quiet one , had been sitting at the big rolling-out table as he 'd entered the restaurant kitchen . |
| 10 | Levels of intermarriage , in the first place , varied considerably from republic to republic and from nationality to nationality ; and although the proportion of ethnically mixed families at the national and republican level might have been increasing , it did not necessarily follow that the incidence of intermarriage between each of the major nationalities had been increasing at a similar rate . |