Example sentences of "the [noun] had be [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hammer had been lying in the garden and Youngs had just picked it up . |
| 2 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Another one has taken a quick look and walked away : Motorola Inc chairman George Fisher said the chief executive position at IBM Corp did not interest him : he wrote to employees saying that speculation about the post had been building in the news media and that his name had been mentioned — ‘ though IBM is a fine company , I am not interested in the position ; I plan to stay at Motorola where my work is challenging , exciting and rewarding . ’ |
| 5 | It was apparent that Labour had done well in the old inner cities , which the population had been leaving in the previous decade , partly owing to the growth of suburbs , partly owing to the effects of wartime bombing . |
| 6 | Assistant county secretary David Spicer said the SSD had been acting in the spirit of the Children Act by trying to avoid ‘ coercive ’ measures such as care orders . |
| 7 | And the delirious thrill of release as that bottle detonated against the wall had been terrifying in its power . |
| 8 | Some members of the crew had been sitting in the bows and it was only when they denied having seen her that he began to search seriously . |
| 9 | Wilcox J. however accepted that the decision formed part of Australia 's international relations , and that even without a specific international obligation relating to Stage 2 , the Cabinet had been acting in implementation of a treaty . |
| 10 | The man had been writing in a book , he 'd taken the number of the car with an official air and Cormack had wondered why for a moment , then forgotten . |
| 11 | It was hard luck on Steinmark , that went without saying , but if the man had been lurking in disreputable quarters and lurching home drunk , it was his own fault . |
| 12 | The conversation had been unsettling in other ways . |
| 13 | It 's believed the deer had been struggling in the snare for more than two days before it was found . |
| 14 | Upon investigation it appeared that the bailie had been acting in a manner which aroused doubts about his honesty , for after a conversation with Dowan , Mungo Graeme of Gorthie informed the duke that |
| 15 | Their views might have attracted wider sympathy if the regime had been engaging in repression across the board , but although the tsar appeared to move to the right when he appointed Valuev to the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Admiral Putiatin to the Ministry of Education , he was very far from abandoning the cause of reform . |