Example sentences of "had been [verb] [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the Countess 's childhood , before the Revolution , and before Belgium had been liberated from Austrian rule by the French , women had been taught to glide along a floor , their feet hidden by wide skirts and their slippers barely leaving the polished boards . |
| 2 | I had been trying to pick up a barman in a pub in Hammersmith . |
| 3 | Collecting up her leaflets , she made her way up to bed , and gave in to the little grin that had been trying to break out a few minutes before . |
| 4 | He had been expecting to sell quite a few additional copies of it to those customers of his who appreciated such things . |
| 5 | By 1978 , 1500 such villages had been created incorporating about a million people . |
| 6 | Bruce Armitage , Grampian Enterprise 's director of training , stressed that the £100,000 grant had been designed to set up a framework in which other agencies could work . |
| 7 | One said that a man had been approached to carry out a contract killing on Freddie , but he refused because he liked him . |