Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] an [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ann had been taking an antidepressant for 6 months without much benefit . |
| 2 | All of us young people , even unbelievers , had been taking an interest in Thomism . |
| 3 | Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , the education minister , had been considering an appeal for support but turned down the college in December . |
| 4 | For some time , Coutts had been considering an application from Virgin to increase their overdraft facility above the previously agreed limit of £4m . |
| 5 | As the crowd grew , pressing against the window , the Divisional Police Commissioner Rousselet , who had been keeping an eye on events , sent a policeman down with orders to have the nude painting removed from the window . |
| 6 | It was overseen by , the company 's operations director , who had been keeping an eye on the Basingstoke premises during its six-month run-down . |
| 7 | Some said Charles had been having an affair with an owner 's wife , others that he was involved in some gambling scam . |
| 8 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 9 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said that Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |
| 10 | The girl had claimed that she had been having an affair with the teacher for some months . |
| 11 | Her husband had been having an affair with Suzanne Regan . |
| 12 | Melissa played thoughtfully with her empty coffee mug and reflected on what now seemed the certainty that Rodney Shergold had been having an affair with Angy . |
| 13 | He got a job in insurance and the marriage lasted about three years and three months , then Bunny found out that his quiet , dutiful wife had been having an affair with her boss at the food research place where she worked for roughly three years and two months . |
| 14 | This letter had purportedly been written by his wife to him saying that he was not the father of the child and she had been having an affair with a man called Nigel , ’ said Mr Klevan . |
| 15 | I had been having an affair with her husband . ’ |
| 16 | Stewart Skett , 21 , who had been having an affair with Mrs Green , a student nurse , yesterday denied having anything to do with her death . |
| 17 | The court had heard she had been having an affair with Mr Skett , a family friend . |
| 18 | She subsequently discovered that they had been having an affair for several months . |
| 19 | The New Right had been showing an interest in Labour 's support for lesbian and gay rights for some time , and a number of organizations such as the National Front , the New Patriotic Movement . |