Example sentences of "had been [verb] an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ann had been taking an antidepressant for 6 months without much benefit . |
| 2 | All of us young people , even unbelievers , had been taking an interest in Thomism . |
| 3 | On the day after the Cease Fire he had been granted an audience with the Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and he had argued his case for the revitalisation of his dream . |
| 4 | The Foreign Ministry on Aug. 21 announced that there had been discovered an attempt by supporters of defeated presidential candidate Mohamed Taki to destabilize the government , and that one French mercenary and two Comorans had been arrested . |
| 5 | They could not ‘ observe ’ until they had been given an idea of what to look at and what to look for . |
| 6 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , the education minister , had been considering an appeal for support but turned down the college in December . |
| 7 | For some time , Coutts had been considering an application from Virgin to increase their overdraft facility above the previously agreed limit of £4m . |
| 8 | As it had been made an exhibit at trial they were entitled to inspect the tape in the jury room , subject to the discretion of the trial judge to prevent e.g. an unedited version containing inadmissible material from being handed over . |
| 9 | He had been made an object of fun and a target for abuse . |
| 10 | As the crowd grew , pressing against the window , the Divisional Police Commissioner Rousselet , who had been keeping an eye on events , sent a policeman down with orders to have the nude painting removed from the window . |
| 11 | It was overseen by , the company 's operations director , who had been keeping an eye on the Basingstoke premises during its six-month run-down . |
| 12 | Some said Charles had been having an affair with an owner 's wife , others that he was involved in some gambling scam . |
| 13 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 14 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said that Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 15 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
| 16 | Her husband had been having an affair with Suzanne Regan . |
| 17 | Melissa played thoughtfully with her empty coffee mug and reflected on what now seemed the certainty that Rodney Shergold had been having an affair with Angy . |
| 18 | He got a job in insurance and the marriage lasted about three years and three months , then Bunny found out that his quiet , dutiful wife had been having an affair with her boss at the food research place where she worked for roughly three years and two months . |
| 19 | This letter had purportedly been written by his wife to him saying that he was not the father of the child and she had been having an affair with a man called Nigel , ’ said Mr Klevan . |
| 20 | I had been having an affair with her husband . ’ |
| 21 | Stewart Skett , 21 , who had been having an affair with Mrs Green , a student nurse , yesterday denied having anything to do with her death . |
| 22 | The court had heard she had been having an affair with Mr Skett , a family friend . |
| 23 | She subsequently discovered that they had been having an affair for several months . |
| 24 | If a group of young people , from all races , all countries and bearing all creeds were gathered together after having been introduced to the concept of the Created God , and were able to set aside , for the time being , their own taught beliefs , they would find that they had been offered an area of religious discussion which would be on completely neutral ground . |
| 25 | The New Right had been showing an interest in Labour 's support for lesbian and gay rights for some time , and a number of organizations such as the National Front , the New Patriotic Movement . |