Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] with [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molotov concluded the parallel negotiations which he had been conducting with German representatives and thus secured two years grace while partitioning Poland with Nazi Germany . |
| 2 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |
| 3 | Ever since 1959 , and Bomb , Miles had been experimenting with small magazines and one-offs . |
| 4 | Brownlow had been dealing with human vagaries for thirty years . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Gould was worn out by our reverses , regretted the loss of time , and this very afternoon had been declaring with many apologies that he must go back in the Vansittart . |
| 6 | By the time of his trial , Father Lynch , a former missionary in Africa , had been working with gay Catholics in the city for nearly ten years . |
| 7 | Captain Green , 41 , had been standing with other men from the Royal Artillery 's 32nd Heavy Regiment after a training exercise in Alberta , Canada , when he was hit . |
| 8 | Whoever expected the little grey devils I had been assaulting with white arrows and rolling with white healing balls to reappear in my lung ? |