Example sentences of "[noun prp] had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 2 | Von Stein had been checking the wall clock in the laboratory then looking back at his notes for some time . |
| 3 | Corbett had been snooping there and seized a juicy morsel , first visiting his old friend at St Bartholomew 's and then the poisoner in Faltour 's Lane . |
| 4 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 5 | While Party Politics was a topical tip seized by thousands of once-a-year punters only five days before the General Election , Adams had been talking of the gelding winning a National for nearly two years . |
| 6 | Bella had been trying to push the walking-frame along and carry the tea at the same time . |
| 7 | Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton ! |
| 8 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 9 | Donna had been rummaging beneath the bed upstairs , where she 'd pulled out both of the metal cases . |
| 10 | Mr Justice Otton was told they regretted helping to give currency to the allegation that John Major and Miss Latimer had been conducting an adulterous relationship . |
| 11 | Marie had been waiting for him out in the car-park . |
| 12 | Marie had been putting her money in a machine which had a little silver crane which came down and swung round , grabbing at the prizes . |
| 13 | Marie had been wondering when he would . |
| 14 | With my father agreeing to give me £2,000 , and adding , ‘ This is the third plane ticket I 've bought for that man ’ , I flew back to England and finished painting the house white , thanking God that I liked the art nouveau and Edwardian furniture David had been buying , because otherwise it could have been tricky , having received the letter and realising that it might actually be love , it might actually be something serious going on . |
| 15 | I can certainly agree with my hon. Friend — that incident was most regrettable , particularly in light of the fact that the human rights record of Indonesia had been improving in recent years . |
| 16 | Its withers will never win any of the races Ronnie had been telling himself about , and he is reluctant to return from this long , defeated , dark-thoughted walk to break the bad news or his adventure to his wife and daughters . |
| 17 | Britta had been expecting something more exciting . |
| 18 | Britta had been watching the other woman — the one the Doctor called Benny — when the screens had come on . |
| 19 | Lucy had been reading The Saint from her father 's shelves when all of the other girls had their noses in Black Beauty . |
| 20 | Any unease that Lucy had been feeling now vanished in the face of Charlie 's uncharacteristic embarrassment . |
| 21 | Lucy had been saying nothing , letting him speak without interruption ; he 'd seemed almost to forget that she was there , but now he fell silent as if the vividness of the memories inside his head had made the words somehow redundant . |
| 22 | As she scrambled around and tried to stay level , she watched for Josie 's return with the thought that , when she finally arrived , she 'd damn well see what a tough time Lucy had been having . |
| 23 | Following his death reports emerged that Falcone had been working closely with Judge Antonio di Pietro on the investigations into corruption in Milan 's local government [ see below ] . |
| 24 | Pat had been attending my classes for a long time — years in fact . |
| 25 | Fanshawe had been lying on his face and the fire had scarcely touched him . |
| 26 | The PLO had been attempting to formalize its relations with the Lebanese government since the latter 's 1987 abrogation [ see p. 35348 ] of the 1969 " Cairo agreement " granting Palestinian fighters the right to bear arms and to conduct cross-border raids into Israel . |
| 27 | The crisis Branson had been expecting broke in October , when British Airways dropped the price of their cheapest return ticket on the London-New York route from £278 to £259 — only £1 more than Virgin — and began selling tickets ‘ subject to government confirmation ’ . |
| 28 | When she found that she was pregnant , she turned to her older sister for help , and since the O'Dells knew that Mr Marriner had been paying court to Moira , they assumed he was responsible for her condition . |
| 29 | Wang Ti had been watching them , surprised by their change of mood . |
| 30 | They also took private papers relating to the large South Ronaldsay family Mr and Mrs T had been trying to help , and a library book written by a social worker on sexual abuse . |