Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] been [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It happened after police in an unmarked car had been following a stolen Maestro for several minutes . |
| 2 | Up to then the UK and Irish entries had been fighting a tooth and nail contest . |
| 3 | ‘ When we were waiting to be questioned by the police , Doug Wilson was saying that Rodney had been making a play for Angy and hinting that he might have got somewhere . ’ |
| 4 | But unknown to the gunman , a little boy had been stealing a ride on the bar under the carriage , and he saw it all . |
| 5 | The miners had been seeking a 25 per cent pay increase , but the mine faced an uncertain future , with reserves expected to run out by 1996 . |
| 6 | The engineers had been investigating a fault with overhead cables in the field at Bromyard in Herefordshire . |
| 7 | The girl had been seeing a lot of another young man , an estate agent called Jose , and that association continued after the marriage — long after ! |
| 8 | Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Berdennikov said on Sept. 14 that the Soviet Union and later Russia had been violating a 1972 treaty banning germ warfare , at least until March 1992 . |
| 9 | The chairman , wearing a fawn sports jacket , said he apologised if he had ‘ caused any offence ’ , but said he was annoyed because Mr Loveluck-Edwards had been reading a novel in court . |
| 10 | They seemed to be positioned at random as if the guests had been playing a game with them and not sitting around the table in an orderly fashion . |
| 11 | Teachers , with a professional nose for the job had been handling a range of social issues , especially under the general heading of PSE ( Personal and Social Education ) . |
| 12 | Matthew had been making a detailed fire-protection plan for the acres which Fairfax had wanted to replant or afforest . |
| 13 | His brother Dmitrii had been making a good case for emancipation at the War Ministry , but his own importance , in the long run , was to be greater . |
| 14 | Newley had been wearing a black , loosely knitted jersey , which was why Dougal had not noticed the wounds earlier . |
| 15 | Fortunately Newley had been wearing a tie and belt . |
| 16 | The forward ceptors had been showing a bright little disc that was the planet Fraxilly , steadily enlarging as we crept near to it on planetary drive . |
| 17 | Maudie had been expecting a better response from her friends , or at the very least a little sympathy , but they seemed not to care . |
| 18 | Husband had been filling a curved briar from a silver pocket box . |
| 19 | The policeman had been investigating a burglary in which a Midland cash card , a portable CD player , a Hitachi portable television set , a silver bracelet , an 18-carat gold chain and St Christopher and five silver necklaces were stolen . |
| 20 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
| 21 | Mr Nagdi had been carrying a gun when he left for work yesterday but he did not get a chance to use it . |
| 22 | The officers had been plotting a map , in changing colours , to show how the contras were fading out of Nicaragua ; suddenly it reversed its trend , and they were back . |
| 23 | Since early April , the Tatarstan and Russian leadership had been negotiating a bilateral treaty which was still incomplete . |
| 24 | The commando had been planning a car bomb attack in Seville during its April fair . |
| 25 | However , as was pointed out by the Court of Appeal in Coward v Comex Houlder Diving Ltd ( 1988 ) ( reported in Kemp & Kemp , Section M , para27-322 ) the conventional percentage does not necessarily apply where the wife had been earning a considerable sum herself prior to her husband 's death or presumably where she had a substantial private income : see also Davies v Hawes ( 1990 ) reported in Kemp & Kemp , Section M , para27-323 . |
| 26 | Mr Butler had been taking a collection-box home when he was attacked on the Tube , kicked in the face , kneed in the stomach , had his head banged against a door and almost strangled . |
| 27 | Amy , 42 , took a different tack when she found that Joe had been leading a double life for 18 months , holed up with a ravishing ex-model 15 years her junior while she believed he was ‘ opening up new markets ’ in Middle Europe . |
| 28 | It was later compounded by the fall-out from a family explosion : on Roger Ackerley 's death in 1929 the son discovered that , first , his father had been maintaining a separate menage and that , second , the money had run out . |
| 29 | The paper had been running a series of articles on junior members of the Government and it was Berowne 's turn . |
| 30 | Tabitha wondered how long the woman had been scratching a living on the waterways , complaining to uncaring passengers , never quite summoning up the cash or the strength to take the long haul home . |