Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] [verb] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detectives believe she had been intending to meet friends at the bar but ended up drinking alone . |
| 2 | Nina , had been trying to open nuts with an irregularly shaped hammer . |
| 3 | ‘ In terms of ideas , I had been trying to produce pictures at that time which had a very flat , two-dimensional feel to them , being torn between what I think are two different ends of photography , but which both have that quality . |
| 4 | The journalist Robert Katz had been trying to interest producers in a film adaptation of his extensive account last year in Esquire magazine of the battle between Willem de Kooning and his daughter . |
| 5 | Narasimhan Ram , associate editor of The Hindu , a Madras-based daily , said at a press conference that it had been preparing to publish documents about the £550m Bofors contract to supply the Indian army with 155mm howitzers . |