Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , whereas filmmaking technique had been advancing in America , things had almost stood still in Britain . |
| 2 | Even as the thought had come Paige had been gathering up her purse and the car keys . |
| 3 | Nurse Lewis had been chewing with her eyes shut . |
| 4 | Customs & Excise introduced the changes , which will be back-dated to 1 July , after it found hotels had been treating the supply of packed lunches to guests as zero-rated ( Caterer , 27 June–3 July ) . |
| 5 | When his court-appointed attorney , Michael Deutsch , filed a discovery motion on 30 August for documents that might show Coleman had been acting under orders when he applied for the Thomas Leavy passport , the DEA , the DIA and the CIA all declined to comply on grounds of national security . |
| 6 | I guessed Sister had been beating him up again . |
| 7 | She woke early on the morning of July 29 , 1981 which is not surprising as her room overlooked the Mall where the singing , chattering crowds had been gathering for days . |
| 8 | The practice of selling honours had been increasing under all governments and it was becoming more marked in both parties . |
| 9 | The court was told Tania had been living with another man , Robert Cross , for five months . |
| 10 | A National Grid spokesman yesterday confirmed negotiations had been going on with landowners but he said it was perfectly normal procedure . |
| 11 | Karen said : ‘ I know Rebecca had been feeling homesick , but she got a new job which was keeping her busy . |
| 12 | I know Martinho had been hoping for a religious programme . |
| 13 | Speaking at his home last night , Mr Hall refused to say if he had known Timex had been planning to close the factory . |
| 14 | Yasmin said the reaction to her new found fame had been startling . |
| 15 | The Belgrade-based news agency Tanjug quoted Serb forces as saying Muslims had been using heavy artillery to bombard Serb positions in the Bratunac region of eastern Bosnia . |
| 16 | I suppose Mother had been telling her what a poor parish this is and what a pity Mark had n't taken a more wealthy living . |
| 17 | Stocking knitting had been removing to the east Midlands from the last years of the preceding century . |
| 18 | She knew Sarah had been expecting the place to be unfit to live in and was pleased to see her eyes widen in surprise . |
| 19 | A 51 year old white man with a 28 year history of ulcerative colitis and ankylosing spondylitis had been receiving longterm treatment with sulphasalazine , until two years previously . |
| 20 | However , the results — far from presenting a more ‘ acceptable ’ picture of English housing — bore out everything that housing experts had been warning the government about for the past few years of increasing housing cuts . |
| 21 | Perhaps in their very silences Marcus had been preparing him , feeding him somehow with his thoughts , with the quality of his deepest reflections . |
| 22 | Only the day before , those noble , horned beasts had been filing unsuspectingly through the long grass of the plain , intending to wallow harmlessly in some cool place through the heat of the day . |
| 23 | The witness said Gary had been swinging on the metal posts on May 11 when they collapsed on his chest . |
| 24 | But she said Lilian had been working at the old people 's home just down the road . |
| 25 | The defence counsel , Hugh Irwin , said McKie had been drinking . |
| 26 | The considerable scope for destocking — the main cause of the recession of the early 1980s — was highlighted by the CSO , which said industry had been building up inventories of unsold goods for two years . |
| 27 | Professor Alex McDougall , convener of the institute 's VAT sub-committee , said ICAS had been pressing for Customs and Excise and the VAT tribunal to have to power to mitigate penalties . |
| 28 | Defence counsel William Carter said Gould had been campaigning against drug abuse within the jail . |
| 29 | For many years our shore-based rummage crews had been picking up increasing quantities of drugs from routine searches of merchant vessels within the ports , but often these smuggling attempts were " one off " jobs by crew members . |
| 30 | It was five races into the championship before it was discovered Jonny had been driving with a broken chassis , which made it impossible to get his car to handle properly . |