Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The present rendezvous had been riding high on my chart of dreads . |
| 2 | My next call was to the company that had been holding some of my things in storage , just to warn them that I was coming round . |
| 3 | However , it got so bad one day — I think he had been discussing this with his father because he used to go home sometimes at the weekends and come back to the flat on Monday — and he came in one day and said , ‘ OK , it 's going to be cabaret ’ . |
| 4 | He had been doing that throughout his poetry — as he had said more than thirty years earlier , in " Portrait of a , Lady " , " And I must borrow every changing shape/To find expression … " but the process reaches its culmination in " Little Gidding " where he creates a replica of Dante 's terza rima : |
| 5 | No one could say how long the elderly woman had been lying lifeless in her home , but the authorities told reporters she had apparently not responded to calls since before Hallowe'en . |
| 6 | For some years Pan Am had been selling some of its more profitable routes to rivals , in an effort to head off its mounting financial problems . |
| 7 | She had been sitting still in her seat . |