Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The government announced that on April 15 it had arrested a group of soldiers and retired army officers who had been planning to overthrow the government . |
| 32 | Mr Murrell said : ‘ I had been planning to switch a lot of my British equity holdings in unit linked endowment policies and unit linked pension plans into either cash or deposit funds or with profit funds . |
| 33 | Comparex Informationssysteme GmbH put up some money for the development of Viking , and Memorex Telex NV had been planning to market the product too , but is understood to have pulled out . |
| 34 | She and Brian had been meaning to explore the area at weekends , but there had always seemed so much else to do . |
| 35 | In a statement tonight , Kent Messenger Group Newspapers said it had been working to produce a guide to the rail link . |
| 36 | The three of us had been going to spend the evening together but Buffy had slipped off . |
| 37 | She had been going to take a walk around Mariánské Láznë , had n't she , so a three mile walk or so up to Vendelin Gajdusek 's home would n't be so difficult , would it ? |
| 38 | She should have been , would have been , indeed , originally it had been Cara and not her who had been going to make the trip to Czechoslovakia alone . |
| 39 | The minister , just back from Chicago where he had been fighting to prevent the breakdown of the talks , described the prospect of punitive tariffs as ‘ sad ’ . |
| 40 | Today 's news will come as a blow for British Agriculture minister John Gummer , who is just back from the US where he had been fighting to prevent the breakdown of the talks . |
| 41 | Today 's news will come as a blow for British Agriculture minister John Gummer , who is just back from the US where he had been fighting to prevent the breakdown of the talks . |
| 42 | Mrs Frizzell had been feeling that victory in this verbal exchange was hers and had been preparing to leave the garden . |