Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] [to-vb] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Finished it , ’ he concluded for her , and Leith knew then that if Naylor Massingham had been looking to find fault with her work then plainly he 'd left no stone unturned . |
| 2 | Detectives believe she had been intending to meet friends at the bar but ended up drinking alone . |
| 3 | Nina , had been trying to open nuts with an irregularly shaped hammer . |
| 4 | In Hollywood , McDevitt , a would-be screenwriter , had been trying to generate interest in a film script about two thieves who hide stolen works of art in a cave in Germany . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The hijackers , who told reporters that they had been attempting to gain publicity for the pro-democracy cause in Myanma , pleaded guilty in Bangkok Criminal Court on Jan. 30 , 1990 . |
| 8 | Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office . |
| 9 | If agent provocateurs had been endeavouring to make trouble between Official and Provisional IRA , it would have been the ideal weapon to use . |
| 10 | 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 . |