Example sentences of "had be [v-ing] [noun sg] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 2 | It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since . |
| 3 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
| 4 | Michael Jones of the Department of History had been doing research on these buildings for several years and with his colleague , Gwyn Meirion Jones of the City of London Polytechnic they tackled the challenge with alacrity . |
| 5 | However the frontal , main attack towards the Mort Homme had barely moved from its point of departure ; stopped by a veritable wall of gunfire from the French artillery that had been anticipating attack from this direction for many days . |