Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Claus Toksvig , then a Danish broadcaster based in London , had been reporting on unemployment in Britain . |
| 2 | Women 's Aid and the Domestic Violence Working Group — a body composed of those encountering the results of domestic violence — had been calling for clarification in the law since the decision . |
| 3 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 4 | Like hundreds of other child victims of the bloody Yugoslav war , Natasha had been sheltering from gunfire in the Sarajevo orphanage , when Mike found her . |
| 5 | This discrepancy could be explained if North America and Europe had been moving with respect to each other as well as with respect to the magnetic pole . |
| 6 | He had been moving towards resignation since being routed by Mr Smith in the July leadership election . |
| 7 | He had been fading from importance for some time , had been replaced as Unionist leader in the Lords by Curzon and was not a minister under Lloyd George . |
| 8 | Er , my experience is slightly different when erm when I had been trying to sort of recover , I did n't , I did n't feel as if I 've get any help from professionals that I approached . |
| 9 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |
| 10 | He had been riding in front of Chuck and his father , watching with admiration the erect , narrow-backed figure of Jacques Devraux jogging easily at the head of the column ; the fierce-eyed Frenchman had quickly made a deep impression on Joseph 's fifteen-year-old mind and he was trying to hold his own shoulders high and square in the same fashion . |
| 11 | Earlier this month Bear Stearns , the New York investment bank , distributed 10 million shares that it had been holding as part of a deferred payment plan . |
| 12 | Even more amazing , Elsie , who had been getting in touch with her previously repudiated strengths , stopped complaining for the day . |
| 13 | And the wives had been living on credit to the grocer in the village . |
| 14 | We had been living in Canaan for ten years when Abraham started inviting me to his tent . |
| 15 | He said Catholics had been living in fear of attack by the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and called on Mr Taylor to withdraw his comments . |
| 16 | It was reported on Nov. 17. 1989 , that Sylvain Bamba , a former permanent under-secretary at the Ministry of the Interior and Justice who had been living in exile since 1963 , had announced the formation of an opposition Union for Congolese Democracy ( Union pour la démocratie congolaise — UDC ) , with himself as its chairman . |
| 17 | ‘ This verse described a boy who had been trembling in front of the bathroom door , but at the same time this boy was swallowed up by the verse ; it surmounted and survived him . |
| 18 | Martha turned to her sister , who had been watching in awe as the miraculous answer to her prayer was provided . |
| 19 | I had been dealing in coke to a very small circle of friends , not more than half a dozen . |
| 20 | Mr Justice Johnson , who jailed the 37year-old Marquess for failing to pay £10,534 to his estranged wife Becky , said he had been acting in excess of his powers when he imposed the sentence . |
| 21 | He also told the court he had been acting in accordance with an order from Allied Forces Headquarters on 14 May 1945 . |
| 22 | Wilcox J. however accepted that the decision formed part of Australia 's international relations , and that even without a specific international obligation relating to Stage 2 , the Cabinet had been acting in implementation of a treaty . |
| 23 | One of the tractor drivers ( which had been turning in front of me all day ) decided it was time for dinner . |
| 24 | Cricket in Australia had been declining in popularity for some years , not helped by an abject England team two seasons before , and the excitement that West Indies generated by their enterprising play was unbounded , culminating in a vast ticker-tape send-off when the tour was over . |
| 25 | All afternoon she had been waiting for evidence of the racing rumour-machine at work . |
| 26 | Eight detainees at Oukacha prison in Casablanca , on hunger strike since Nov. 26 , were on Dec. 25 granted their demands for political prisoner status , the right to family visits and the right to read newspapers ; their families had been fasting in support at the offices of the Moroccan Union of Labour . |
| 27 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |
| 28 | On May 20th the police are alleged to have shot dead two people , both veterans of the country 's long civil war , who had been demonstrating in favour of more money for the wounded . |
| 29 | Mr Goldsworthy and Mr Rachael 's girlfriend Linda , had been arguing over access for 6 years . |
| 30 | Bristol had previously been heavily involved in the Iceland trade , but had been coming under pressure from increasing Hanse power there , and its merchants may well have been looking for alternative supplies of fish — it is worth stressing that the ships sent out in 1481 in search of the ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ were carrying a large quantity of salt ( 45 , pp.188–9 ; 94 , pp.177–82 ) . |