Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Switzerland , which had 36,000 political asylum requests in 1990 ( and 17 per cent of whose residents were non-nationals ) , the government had been tightening the rules since February 1991 . |
| 2 | Writers , poets and bards had been telling the stories for centuries but it was not until the Victorians that a visual interpretation was recorded and that was essentially romantic and ill-informed . |
| 3 | He knew Phil Jordan 's home number and dialled it , hoping Jordan had been telling the truth about going home . |
| 4 | So perhaps Lesley-Jane had been telling the truth in her description of the relationship . |
| 5 | At the same time , it should not be forgotten that some writers had been advocating the use of multiple methods for years : |
| 6 | Benjamin and I had been entertaining the group with a French madrigal , my deep bass a smooth foil to my master 's well-modulated tenor : a stupid little song about a maid who lost her wealth and her virtue in the great city . |
| 7 | It was now three in the afternoon , and the offensive odour had been plaguing the neighbours since 10.30 in the morning . |
| 8 | Since mid century , philanthropists and social reformers had been urging the removal of the population of the inner-city slums to the more salubrious outskirts of the city . |
| 9 | Mrs Taylor said she had been urging the Government for months to make public a report by Mr Ponsford confirming the morale problems . |
| 10 | He had been calculating the girl as a mathematical entry in the equation . |
| 11 | Control Data had been mulling the use of other RISCs , notably the Hewlett-Packard Co PA chip , but these machinations were , as the company admitted ( UX No 384 ) , a bluff to bring Silicon Graphics and NEC to the table . |
| 12 | The Fraud Squad had been seeking the help of several journalists for some weeks , as part of its work on the findings of that official report . |
| 13 | Over 90 per cent of the heroin users at each agency had been using the drug for between one month and five years . |
| 14 | Gauleiter Forster , on the other hand , had been using the threat of Russian communism and Polish nationalism as the basis for the development of the NSDAP . |
| 15 | A squirrel skittering on the branches of a lilac drew the Colonel 's attention upwards , away from the ground where he had been digging the soil around his feet with the tip of his walking stick . |
| 16 | Tawell 's second piece of bad luck was when the tenacious Dr Champney , who had been searching the countryside for the dark-robed perpetrator of the crime , noticed him boarding the train . |
| 17 | ‘ Do n't fill her head with a lot of nonsense , ’ said my mother , rather oddly since , on the face of it , Lili had been recommending the path of virtue . |
| 18 | He had been thinking the matter over very seriously as he travelled from Chertsey on the train . |
| 19 | The ghillies had been gathering the herds into the area for days . |
| 20 | On Jan. 17 the 13-member tribunal , which since March 1991 had been hearing the case concerning the Bank of Crete , acquitted former Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou of all the charges against him . |
| 21 | It was then Gedanken realized that all along she had been hearing the voices of the beetles over a loudspeaker . |
| 22 | She had been trying the apartment since seven o'clock . |
| 23 | I had been wearing the uniform in which he must remember her . |
| 24 | Bernard had been farming the manor on a 21-year lease since at least 1536 , and paying £9. 10s. a year for it . |
| 25 | Five of the nine practices had been collecting the types of data required by the regional health authority for several years , and all of the practices had computer systems in operation before the preparation period . |
| 26 | As the boats began to leave the mouth of the River Tees , where they had been barring the way to Teesport , they claimed their eight-hour show of strength had been a success . |
| 27 | While the Blue Streak saga was being played out , Macmillan and McLeod had been setting the stage for Britain 's final withdrawal from Empire . |
| 28 | During much of the period leading up to this time the Panel had been considering the case of the large South Ronaldsay family whose father had been imprisoned — the family of fifteen children who so badly needed a positive and sympathetic solution to their problems . |
| 29 | The dead man had been renting the house on the quiet estate for 18 months . |
| 30 | NICK FALDO stirred himself at last in the Masters at Augusta National yesterday when a third round of 68 made him five under par for the tournament before a storm caused a three-hour delay that had a disastrous effect on defending champion Ian Woosnam , who had been sharing the lead with Craig Parry . |