Example sentences of "had been [verb] [coord] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This scheme , which was the first which opened up the riverside in Leeds , an area which up to this time had been ignored and declining for 100 years , led the way for the mass of development which has since followed . |
| 2 | While the CNAA had been debating and arriving at a new policy statement , a considerable diversity of approaches had developed in the institutions . |
| 3 | No doubt everyone in Mouncy Street knew what he had bought and had been looking or waiting for him to find out . |
| 4 | … once the CNAA even began to lend its support to this development , there literally was a kind of explosion , and plainly institutions had been looking and waiting for validation in this field … |
| 5 | ‘ To heaven , of course , ’ said Dotty tartly , seizing an enormous wooden spoon and advancing upon an iron saucepan which had been rumbling and grumbling to itself throughout the conversation . |
| 6 | But yesterday McLean said it was Burgess who had been kicking and stamping on the victim . |
| 7 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 8 | It was what she had been hoping and longing for but there was no surge of delight , only a strong but strangely detached sense of relief that the worst of his ordeal was over . |
| 9 | The villagers would think I had been drinking or wandering in my wits . ’ |
| 10 | He opted for the latter and at the end of 1989 he launched his debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ which sold very well , got a lot of radio play , and , most important of all , it introduced the songs he had been composing and singing at concerts to a wider public . |
| 11 | Bicker was there , looking as tired as if he and not they had been riding and fighting in the past three days . |
| 12 | It probably dates from after 1864 when Henry Pease turned his attention to the gardens of the mansion he had been enlarging and improving since 1846 . |
| 13 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
| 14 | A thin , stoop-shouldered Frenchman wearing a pince-nez who had been watching and listening from the curbside , stepped into the road suddenly and leaned close enough to Chuck for the American boy to smell the garlic on his breath . |
| 15 | He had been fighting or riding since three hours after sunrise this morning . |
| 16 | Libby had been heaving and pushing at one of the logs , covered with rotten bark that peeled off , revealing orange insect eggs and small white channels like blood vessels covering the surface . |
| 17 | The boeuf Gardiane which followed brought tears to our eyes ; we had been overwrought and dropping with fatigue , and while the food we had already eaten had cheered and comforted us , it was n't until the cover was taken off the dish of beef stew and we smelt the wine and the garlic and the rich juices and saw the little black olives and the branches of wild thyme which had scented the stew laid in a little network over the meat , that the tension vanished . |
| 18 | ‘ Now do stop fussing around , ’ his wife said to him after he had been tossing and turning for about an hour . |