Example sentences of "had [be] [v-ing] their [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was amazed to realise that some of them had been using their machines for five years and had no idea of the machines capabilities because all the instructions are written in either English , Spanish or Japanese ; nothing in Thai . |
| 2 | For weeks prior to this , provincial and national newspapers had been expressing their outrage at the title of the album . |
| 3 | Louise and Miriam had been doing their work with set faces and compressed lips but that was doubtless because of the smell of the insects which was frightful . |
| 4 | Both the interrogators had been doing their job for so long that they no longer thought much about what they were saying . |
| 5 | Politicians and political parties for some months prior to the announcement of the date of the election had been making their arrangements for manifestoes and candidates . |
| 6 | The Brigade positions had been under attack for the past four days and Nos. 3 , 4 , 6 , and 45 Royal Marine Commando had been having their share of casualties . |
| 7 | Computers would compete with manual labourers , but Western countries had been losing their jobs for years already ( as anyone knows who buys plimsolls in the supermarket and reads the label . ) |
| 8 | Theorists all over the world had been redoing their sums for nothing . |
| 9 | Miliutin , architect of the St Petersburg municipal reform of 1846 , was head of the Economic Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and potentially the most influential of the " enlightened bureaucrats " who had been consolidating their links with each other since the end of the 1830s . |
| 10 | Ingrid soon discovered from Ilse that the two waitresses had been supplementing their wages by selling sex . |