Example sentences of "[noun] had [be] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 2 | His eyes had been feeding on darkness and projections for too long , and now , presented with solid reality , they were befuddled . |
| 3 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 4 | Fanshawe had been lying on his face and the fire had scarcely touched him . |
| 5 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 6 | Erm yes erm well at the ti at first I could only move my head , but when I went on that holiday , St Giles had been working on me with nerve machines and muscle machines |
| 7 | The mother-of-three had been sunbathing on the hottest day of 1990 . |
| 8 | A man in a dark suit across the aisle had been working on business papers since New York . |
| 9 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 10 | Graham had been working on his yacht , the Sea Eagle , during a break on a long sailing trip , when he suffered an electric shock . |
| 11 | The SNM stated that the relief workers had been riding on a government military lorry ; such lorries were subject to routine attack and they appealed to relief agencies to be " independent " in performing their duties . |
| 12 | On the evidence before the learned judge , it was plain that Wickes had been trading on Sundays and intended to continue doing so in the future unless restrained by the court ; and it was common ground between the parties that Wickes ' Sunday trading was in breach of section 47 unless that section had been rendered ineffective by article 30 of the Treaty . |
| 13 | Both accounts demonstrate that , until Stanislav Ulam 's observation that X-rays could be used to propagate an instant fusion reaction , Teller had been working on a fundamentally impractical design . |
| 14 | The rain had been beating on him for hours , on him and his comrades , not only here but wherever they had been when they met their deaths ; their clothes , their very hair , had a flattened , dead look . |
| 15 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 16 | Mr Eaton and colleague Ron Siddle had been working on sea fasteners , fixed to the barge to stop the module moving . |
| 17 | The Scarabae had been preying on her mind , as in patches they always did , and so she had conjured up the memory to fit a stranger . |
| 18 | If anyone had doubted that the gods had been smiling on British athletics that August week in Stuttgart , the final event must have convinced them . |
| 19 | Crews and owners had been reflecting on how best to continue to operate in the Gulf . |
| 20 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 21 | Erika remembered the Watchword Omi had been reading on the day when Karl had come . |
| 22 | Quinn had been doodling on a pad . |
| 23 | Jack and Dieter had stated quite clearly that Alain Gebrec had been lying on the rocks below the belvedere . |
| 24 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 25 | All these trees had been growing on peat do you see , and the peat was dry . |
| 26 | And the wives had been living on credit to the grocer in the village . |
| 27 | The cursor will be returned to its original size and moved to a point just outside where the highlight had been depending on the key tapped . |
| 28 | Later she wondered what Brian had been doing on the towpath , forgetting that his favourite restaurant commanded a view of the canal . |
| 29 | Though it did not appear until relatively late in his life , Locke had been working on the Essay since about 1660 . |
| 30 | Anne had been dwelling on this , even as the queen-dowager , together with the prince , princesses and Joan , waited with a mixture of feelings — hope , doubt , impatience and irritation — for her reply . |