Example sentences of "[coord] had [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 32 | Owners Abroad , which runs Enterprise , Falcon , Martyn and SunMed , insisted that it was not following Thomson , and had been planning its own big reductions . |
| 33 | ‘ And then Crom Croich eats the hearts , ’ said the soldier , and Cathbad , who had been very busy all afternoon supervising the skinning and jointing of an ox and had been planning to serve braised ox heart for tomorrow 's midday meal , turned quite green and tried to remember if they had any salted pig left . |
| 34 | Gen Morillon had arrived late on Thursday to try to negotiate safe passage for the trapped British-led convoy and had been planning to leave yesterday when his party of about 15 was blocked in . |
| 35 | Mrs Frizzell had been feeling that victory in this verbal exchange was hers and had been preparing to leave the garden . |
| 36 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |
| 37 | After her husband 's departure , Margaret had been feeling very miserable and frustrated , was having difficulty concentrating at work and had been avoiding her usual social contacts . |
| 38 | I had just had my forty-first birthday and had been going through a very unhappy time , not eating properly because I was economizing so much , and becoming properly run down . |
| 39 | Tim , from Great Sankey , was a dedicated fan of the club and had been shopping for an Everton strip on the day of the Bridge Street bombing . |
| 40 | His work on Sanday was to be taken up by a teacher who already lived there , and had been doing the job before Mr M was sent there . |
| 41 | It was n't that long ago that John Hurt was drinking heavily , and had been doing so for years . |
| 42 | Bodie was making eyes at the girl , and had been doing so for most of the hearing . |
| 43 | They said yes , Andrus did come on Fridays and had been doing so for years . |
| 44 | By 1975 local expenditure represented over 20 per cent of GNP in Scandinavian countries and had been increasing substantially in other parts of Europe ( Newton 1980:8 — 9 ) . |
| 45 | But all she saw was slow , repeated , stumbling , coughing killings at which she retched in a very conventional English animal-loving way , which upset Monsieur Grimaud , who was an aficionado , and had been lecturing Frederica on the provenance and meaning of that word . |
| 46 | Lear was doubtless unhappy during much of the time he worked for Gould ; he was also constantly unwell , often in desperate financial straits , and had been finding lithography an increasing strain on his eyesight and his nerves . |
| 47 | Another fake defector operating at the same time was Top Hat ( whose real name remains unknown ) , who also planted a lot of false information on the West through the Americans but did in 1965 expose the spy Frank Bossard , who worked in the Missile Guidance Branch at the Air Ministry and had been selling secrets to the GRU for some while . |
| 48 | He was the managing director of Supersight Golf , and had been selling golf clubs for as long as most people could remember . |
| 49 | Amaranth was joined by Charles Harvey , who had accompanied her to the party and had been circulating among his colleagues . |
| 50 | Mr Waterworth worked for an agency and had been driving for the Fewston Transport Company , of Skipton , at the time of the tragedy . |
| 51 | ‘ He had no convictions prior to this incident and had been driving a car since 1957 . ’ |
| 52 | She 'd moved over into the makeup chair and had been studying her own face in the mirror . |
| 53 | Miaco were a well-known operator of DC-3s and other types out of the Island and had been overhauling radial piston engines as another facet of their business for over twenty years . |
| 54 | Still half asleep he smiled indulgently , scenting a victory , since he had wanted to be generous all day and had been feeling mildly irritated with her for not giving him the opportunity . |
| 55 | Even though she had n't got to bed till the small hours , and had been feeling totally exhausted , she 'd been tossing and turning for what seemed like hours , utterly unable to sleep . |
| 56 | Direct Line Insurance is Britain 's largest direct insurer and had been running at 100,000 new policies or thereabouts for three years . |
| 57 | They had already become British subjects and had been trading in corn from the United States of America and morocco to Madeira . |
| 58 | As an amateur jockey Pip has had eight National hunt wins this season and had been challenging for the Ladies Championship . |
| 59 | Val had four children aged between seventeen and six , and had been working as a childminder at home to supplement the family income . |
| 60 | He had grown up in Weston-super-Mare and had been working in local radio in Bristol before joining us in the mid 1970s . |