Example sentences of "had [adv] [been] [v-ing] for [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 2 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 3 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |
| 4 | We had not been going for more than half an hour when the driver of the sick man 's bullock cart came to me and said that all was now well , we need go no further . |
| 5 | Although fitted with an alarm courtesy of the Venice in Peril Fund , this had not been working for some time . |
| 6 | But although it had now been raining for several hours , there was not the least damp or cold either in the deep runs or in the many burrows that they passed . |