Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 2 | Ruth swung her long tanned legs to the patio and sat up in the lounger where she had been soaking up the sun lasciviously for the past hour and irrationally telling herself that if Fernando Serra had really loved her he would n't have let her slip away from him so easily . |
| 3 | The Life of Johnson makes plain how Boswell had been staking out the ground since their early acquaintance , making notes immediately after each meeting of what he himself was eventually to ‘ consider the peculiar value ’ of the Life , ‘ that is , the quantity it contains of Johnson 's conversation ’ . |
| 4 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 5 | Molly had been laying out the lunch on the terrace . |
| 6 | I was reading through back copies of MKM which I do quite often and started to read Help Line in the April '91 issue , when my husband ( who had been clearing out the attic ) came into the room with an old TV Times — Feb 1960 . |
| 7 | While we talked Miss Sowerby had been cleaning up the patient with the head wound and , as the man prepared to leave , Reid cried to him , ‘ Head feel'um better ? ’ |
| 8 | Woolton took on to his staff a small group of civil servants who had been working out the implications of the Beveridge report , and also the Uthwatt report on land values . |
| 9 | In the meantime , Pennethorne had been working out the details of his proposals for the Foreign Office . |
| 10 | Finally , as Pete had been opening out the canvas deck cover on a relaunched Fairline Fury while Ted paced the dock alongside , he 'd looked up at his employer and said , ‘ You really want to know ? ’ |
| 11 | Parore had been heading down the leg side — too far , ex-Central Districts keeper Jack Vernon assured me later — and had to change direction . |