Example sentences of "[noun] had been [v-ing] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends ! |
| 2 | Before the war Jordan had been importing some 55,000 barrels a day from Iraq at a fixed price of US$16.40 , well below the market rate . |
| 3 | Glass had been earning some money by transcribing Ravi Shankar 's score for the film , Chappacqua . |
| 4 | Although he was chary of broaching the subject of a full-time shepherd , when he did so , he found that his father had been giving some thought to the matter . |
| 5 | Over the eighteenth century higher London wages had been driving some manufactures into the country . |
| 6 | For some years Pan Am had been selling some of its more profitable routes to rivals , in an effort to head off its mounting financial problems . |
| 7 | Mr Blunkett had been reviewing some of the scientific evidence about the connection between deprivation and ill health or premature death , and immediately before your intervention had referred to children in social class 5 being six times as likely to be burnt or knocked down in accidents as those in social class 1 . |