Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and Sarah had been sitting under the balcony and when the warning was given they moved forward but continued to enjoy the film in which John McCormack sang Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms and The Dawning of the Day . |
| 2 | The 20,000 urns and vases had been lying in deep salt water for 302 years . |
| 3 | While Jessica and Karen had been helping with the salmon mousse , the dark-eyed alien had been lurking at the gate … |
| 4 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 5 | Hal and Joy had been working at Applecross Cafe for over 10 years . |
| 6 | Dr Gilbert has pointed out that when the evangelist Hannah More remarked in 1789 on the existence of whole village populations no less estranged from the services of the Church than were heathens , she was belatedly recognising something which Wesley and Whitefield had been proclaiming for decades . |
| 7 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 8 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 9 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 10 | ( Bronislaw Geremek of the Democratic Union , whom he had asked on Nov. 8 , had admitted failure on Nov. 13 , and Walesa had been seeking since then to find another alternative to Olszewski — see p. 38586 — reportedly preferring the reappointment of Bielecki . ) |
| 11 | Horst and Jurgen had been whistling in the dark . |
| 12 | Borough councillors heard yesterday that 1992 is Car Crime Prevention Year and officers had been looking at ways of getting the message across . |
| 13 | Crews and owners had been reflecting on how best to continue to operate in the Gulf . |
| 14 | The squadron had been out on a practice bombing exercise and J. had been driving round the perimeter track that afternoon , inspecting the bomb bays of returned aircraft , and came back to park his vehicle in one of the empty hangars . |
| 15 | She and Jack had been swimming in the Thames near Twickenham . |
| 16 | Her cousins and servants had been fussing over her since dawn , and the heat in the cathedral was oppressive . |
| 17 | Tobacco advertising through sponsorship and billboards had been waiting like the last prisoners on death row for eight months following a cabinet announcement in April 1992 that the end of their last ditch stand was nigh . |
| 18 | This discrepancy could be explained if North America and Europe had been moving with respect to each other as well as with respect to the magnetic pole . |
| 19 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 20 | The daughter of a rich Jewish textile manufacturer from Lodz , this highly intelligent woman of great charm and style had been living in Germany during the years when Hitler was coming to power , and the persecution of Jews had begun . |
| 21 | In 1927 Tate 's correspondents Winters and Crane had been discussing between themselves not Eliot but William Carlos Williams ( 1883–1963 ) . |
| 22 | There seems little doubt that suspicion and resentment had been festering in Pakistani minds since long before this series began . |
| 23 | Jeopardy and Amber had been working on a piece which they intended to perform when Mandru returned home . |
| 24 | In 1907 Picasso and Braque had been living near each other in Montmartre for some time , and after 1908 began meeting daily to talk , visit the galleries and museums , and to examine each other 's work . |
| 25 | Among them was John Ingram , who said that he and others had been drinking with Drew at 1.35pm that lunchtime , and that Drew had mentioned going to Cross Street to get a paper . |
| 26 | Retirement is one of the few moments which a politician can choose with deliberation and Baldwin had been preparing for it for months , if not for years . |
| 27 | Morant , Chambers and others were aware that for ten years or more several LEAs including Sheffield , Nottingham , Wigan , Liverpool , Carlisle , Finchley , Bolton , Cambridge , and Edinburgh had been experimenting with their own employment schemes . |