Example sentences of "[adv] they had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth had no idea how long they had been driving when Sean turned the horses off the road on to a narrow side track . |
| 2 | Perhaps they had been discussing me . |
| 3 | Bicker was there , looking as tired as if he and not they had been riding and fighting in the past three days . |
| 4 | Now there is nothing to prevent plural continuation here ( e.g. They had been working hard for hours ) , but the incidence of such continuations was less than 5% , and continuations mostly were confined to singular references with individuals being in relatively stereotypical roles with respect to each other . |
| 5 | So far they had been doing nothing more than ‘ just walking the dog , Guv ’ . |
| 6 | Latterly they had been feeding him by dropping his fodder from a loft above the stall , and lowering down pails of water on a string . |
| 7 | Then they had been sinking on to the bed and , between kisses and caresses , peeling the clothes hungrily from one another , until at last they lay naked , side by side . |
| 8 | They did n't fire a response in her , but it felt nice , like when they had been holding hands . |
| 9 | They were vague shadowy figures , rather like her own mother had been , except that she remembered them slightly better because , when she had been about eight years old , Granny Tremayne had driven her over to Newquay where they had been staying . |
| 10 | The two teams arrived in the northern capital from Beijing where they had been competing in the Asian Games . |
| 11 | Kevin Brown , Patrick Seymour and Lou Collins ran into the listening-post from the cots where they had been lying dozing . |
| 12 | The twins sprang up from where they had been sitting by Chola 's side and ran round the hearth to have a closer look . |
| 13 | They were all three at the table where they had been sitting at a meal , the curry soup before them , a dreadful static group , posed as for a stage set . |
| 14 | But I did discover where they had been coming in — through the stable and into the wall — and where they had resided when I pulled down the ceiling lathes in the dairy and a load of old nests and rat droppings fell on to my head . |
| 15 | A fraction of a second later a wash of flame played over the stones where they had been standing . |