Example sentences of "had been [verb] [adv] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is anecdotal evidence to be sure , but given the lack of any measures to enforce the speed limit it was hard to see how any safety gains had been made here at all . |
| 2 | A few hours earlier she had been grinding wearily at Latin prose composition , when she had caught a shocked glimpse of her pinched , haggard face in the mirror . |
| 3 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 4 | Again and again , people told me in Prague earlier this month how the Forum had been held together at difficult moments by his irrestistible decency and gentle authority . |
| 5 | In third place Karl O'Donnell ( Newlands ) , who had been leading overnight at two under slipped to a 75 on Sunday to finish two over par , his early rounds had been 70 and 70 . |
| 6 | By autumn 1990 Chameleon had been installed successfully at 12 sites throughout Europe , but Intergraph felt that a third party with a ‘ wider skill set ’ was needed to exploit the system 's full potential . |