Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what I thought and what I believed had been moving further and further apart in the weeks since my father had died . |
| 2 | Erm which would give you some contact with erm , er you know people who 'd er er just come out of prison or , or you know had been serving some sort of sentence or other , you know , maybe not a custodial one or something . |
| 3 | Two Norfolk men were recently jailed for siezing a youth they thought had been stealing bicycles . |
| 4 | On the facts before it , which concerned a death from a lorry shedding its load , the court held that the police were wrong to arrest for manslaughter the person whom they thought had been driving the truck : there was a wide gap between a suspicion that somebody was driving a truck , and a suspicion that they were driving it recklessly . |
| 5 | During the trial Mr O'Donnell told how he had agreed to go with McPherson , who had driven him to a lay-by at the Rest and Be Thankful on the A83 road , where men he recognised had been waiting in a van . |
| 6 | Mr Recorder Shaun Spencer , QC , deferred sentence for six months on the man he said had been acting like an ‘ incorrigible swindler ’ . |