Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It might have been a delayed reaction to the drugs I had been taking for an operation I 'd recently had on my foot , but this seemed unlikely . |
| 2 | The 31-year-old victim 's wife , who had been drifting on an anchor line 10ft below their charter boat , was uninjured . |
| 3 | The jangling of his friend 's bells and chains , which he had been using as an aid for navigation , had ceased abruptly . |
| 4 | The ruling Liberal Democratic Party had been looking for an excuse to reward its friends in the building industry for their financial support . |
| 5 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
| 6 | His thought had been moving towards an idea of nature , not unlike that found in some Stoic philosophers , as a complex of processes subject to their own natural law . |
| 7 | She had been kneeling in an easy-chair to look at the painting at that side of the room and as she moved he suddenly looked across at her intently , his face moody . |
| 8 | Our next-door neighbours , Mr and Mrs Buckley , had a daughter named Sally who had been staying with an aunt for a year or so . |
| 9 | He had discussed this with a certain Colonel Hazelden who had been operating as an agent in the Tobruk area . |
| 10 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |
| 11 | The young man admitted in due course , when we had been driving for an hour , that he did not know the way and was totally lost . |
| 12 | Mr Wilson had been celebrating in an aunt 's house just after tea when he disappeared , and the family had assumed he had gone home . ’ |
| 13 | He put aside being lonely for a moment , and realized that hunger had been waiting for an opportunity to make-itself felt . |
| 14 | Maurin , who had been longing for an excuse to escape , said he would go himself to attend to it and made for the door . |
| 15 | She had been meaning for an age to get a dimmer fitted . |
| 16 | Their relationship had been coming to an end and Miss Turner 's parents had arranged for her to go on a holiday to America to deter her from seeing him . |
| 17 | As soon as her breasts were free of their thin cotton restraint , he licked the soft , warm flesh , as if the taste of her was something he had been craving for an eternity . |
| 18 | Heaven knew , it had been difficult enough to remain even slightly detached when they had been putting on an act for the benefit of an audience . |
| 19 | MPs had been pressing for an enquiry following the publication of a damning report on the state of school discipline by the Professional Association of Teachers in 1987 , which was given prominent coverage in the press . |
| 20 | who had been working as an assistant to an Essex doctor , joined the practice , which was then at its zenith . |
| 21 | While he had been talking like an estate agent , getting his full value out of the situation , the full embarrassment of it had been dawning on Jenna . |