Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Malvern had been struggling most of the way on the only wet and windy day in an otherwise idyllic week . |
| 2 | Richard used a new toothbrush which Martin had been saving fresh from the cellophane . |
| 3 | We discovered later that a crowd of drop-outs had been living rough on the Towers , using local fishing boats to ferry them to and fro . |
| 4 | Cleveland teenager Carrie Gallagher , 13 , who caused concern when she was reported missing from her home in Declarden Road , Pallister Park , Middlesbrough , had been staying overnight with a friend . |
| 5 | The master at this time , J.W. , was in trouble when it was reported that he had been boarding some of the officers and two of their relatives in his own apartments under a private arrangement . |
| 6 | It was alleged the car had been doing 50-60mph on the wrong side of the road . |
| 7 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |
| 8 | Even before that , I had been recording some of the memories of the older generation of Bishop 's Castle residents , realising how many of them really did ‘ well remember ’ the early part of this century ; much of this material has been used in the ‘ RECALL ’ project at Stone House , whose members have contributed greatly to my understanding of that period . |
| 9 | Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale . |
| 10 | His Celtic tones were complemented by those of Jim Naughtie himself , who had set up shop in an attic room of the Grand , but who had been spending much of the ‘ happy hour ’ between six and seven trawling for ‘ vox pop ’ . |
| 11 | The American , who had been lying second after the morning 's compulsory figures , was placed first by all nine judges for both technical merit and presentation . |
| 12 | The springer which had been lying buttered on the floor midway between the two slewed an eye in the direction of Vanessa Dersingham when she spoke . |
| 13 | It had been lying idle since a Saturday afternoon in October , with begonia tubers in its grass-box and a bundle of yellowing newspapers balanced on its engine . |
| 14 | And then a sound , as if she had been standing next to a huge thunderclap . |
| 15 | Spraying conventional crops with fungicides costs US$750 a hectare a year and is a hazard to the health of plantation workers and the environment ; there is also evidence that black sigatoka had been becoming resistant to the chemicals . |
| 16 | The officers believe Elizabeth and Julie had been sunbathing naked on the remote beach , confident they would not be seen . |
| 17 | Then a stranger , who had been sitting unseen round the corner , came up to them . |
| 18 | A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning . |
| 19 | We had been studying all of the information we had collected in an effort to reconstruct the events of that operation . |