Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] on [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this Maria Candida , who had been listening on the stairs , let out a wail of joy at the thought that she would be seeing Portugal again ; Leonora went to embrace her daughter and whisper her blessings , while Gerald , who knew when he was beaten and was never any good in emotional situations , announced that he had important business in the castle yard , and would return as soon as he had attended to it . |
| 2 | Some boys had been jumping on the backs of trams , when the conductor 's attention was distracted , giving the emergency bell signal , stealing cash boxes and jumping off . |
| 3 | Essentially those who felt themselves to be excluded from power decided to support a perfectly plausible claimant to the throne who had been waiting on the sidelines for such a following to materialize . |
| 4 | Mr Fraser had been walking on the moors with his wife and daughter when he was taken ill at about 5.30pm on Sunday . |
| 5 | Reluctantly realizing that major investment from the City was increasingly unlikely , they had been concentrating on the unions and council pension funds . |
| 6 | A site has yet to be secured — although the Mountain View , California-based company said it had been working on the plans for some 18 months — and a choice will be announced within 60 days , according to Sun 's chief financial officer , Kevin Melia . |
| 7 | Dai 's family had been working on the farmlands around Rhydoldog for generations . |
| 8 | Jack and Dieter had stated quite clearly that Alain Gebrec had been lying on the rocks below the belvedere . |
| 9 | It had been a slow job , but as all this had been going on the elvers had been flooding into the basin . |
| 10 | They had been sitting on the sands all day . |
| 11 | Dad , who had been sitting on the stairs with his head in his hands , went into action . |