Example sentences of "the [noun] had be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand , virtually all the demands which the Anglicans had been pressing for in their attempts to come to terms with James , such as those made by the bishops in their meeting with the King on 3 October , did . |
| 2 | The officer commanding the militia had been listening to the conversation between the two men with growing unease . |
| 3 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 4 | Maggie remembered how the building had been rocking on its foundations . |
| 5 | In point of fact the JCS had been pressing for consistent applications of containment ever since 1947 , had identified US security interests with Nationalist success in China and had declared that , if the Chinese Nationalists were to fall , the US must be prepared to accept eventual Soviet hegemony over Asia . |
| 6 | She had not been able to work out where the noise had been coming from . |
| 7 | THE CHAMPAGNE had been pouring into Downing Street since dawn , everything from a Nebuchadnezzar of Moet & Chandon to a bottle of Marks & Spencer 's own , but Mr Major touched not a drop . |
| 8 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 9 | The hammer had been lying in the garden and Youngs had just picked it up . |
| 10 | The defender had been playing with Limerick on a short-term contract . |
| 11 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 12 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 13 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 14 | The car had been waiting for him . |
| 15 | It was obvious to Michael and Geoffrey that the car had been waiting for them . |
| 16 | The car had been travelling along the A534 from Wrexham to Holt when it went out of control . |
| 17 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 18 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
| 19 | The girl had been missing for what — a week ? — and off-hand he agreed with the local man 's judgement that she had been here for most of it . |
| 20 | The mother-of-three had been sunbathing on the hottest day of 1990 . |
| 21 | While the pub had been emptying of its customers , and Fritz had been covering down behind the counter , Mrs Nora had grabbed a broom and , holding it in both hands like a bat , had waited until the Turk had turned to face her — and then cracked him across the forehead . |
| 22 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 23 | One moment the sun had been hanging above the desert , the next it had plunged out of sight , leaving only the copper and rose and saffron of the water to testify that it had been there . |
| 24 | And he remembered that the boy had been fiddling with them . |
| 25 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 26 | A man in a dark suit across the aisle had been working on business papers since New York . |
| 27 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 28 | The owners of smaller industrial enterprises usually retained many of the antiaristocratic views of the early nineteenth century , when the bourgeoisie had been struggling against the Old Regime . |
| 29 | I know the mental health on th on the health service side are facing the same problems and I was wondering to what extent the director had been talking to the District Health Authority on , on those lines . |
| 30 | Jaelani said that the troops had been responding to " chaos or riot " , but nevertheless some officers had been " emotional " and their actions were " beyond the limit of propriety " and " exceeded the limit of toleration " . |