Example sentences of "[prep] them had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings . |
| 2 | Four of them had been taking non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) for a mean period of 10 ( range one to 18 ) months for arthritis and remarkably one of these had DU in spite of having pentagastrin fast achlorhydria due to pernicious anaemia . |
| 3 | One of them had been watching him recently . |
| 4 | Thirty of them had been drinking so heavily that they forgot to get off at Peterborough to catch their connection to Harwich . |
| 5 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |
| 6 | The 17 defendants were convicted on the strength of two groups of evidence : their confessions made in police custody , and forensic tests which found that various of them had been handling explosives shortly before the bombings . |
| 7 | Which of them had been reading The Book of Poisons ? |
| 8 | I was amazed to realise that some of them had been using their machines for five years and had no idea of the machines capabilities because all the instructions are written in either English , Spanish or Japanese ; nothing in Thai . |
| 9 | Some of them had been mopping the floor ; some washing plates and cups ; some just running , not carrying anything , but speedy and purposeful all the same . |
| 10 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 11 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 12 | It was n't intended ; none of them had been paying any attention to the world round about : they 'd all but walked into one another . |
| 13 | While the ramparts had been melting , the jungle beyond them had been growing steadily thicker . |