Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , while this had been happening to the fisherman , his poor dumb wife was left alone in the lonely hut . |
| 2 | It had been a slow job , but as all this had been going on the elvers had been flooding into the basin . |
| 3 | Until then the English had been sailing to places so far from effective Spanish opposition and so thinly populated that the government had not had to provide any help . |
| 4 | Some had been waiting for more than an hour , arriving while it was still dark and the little windows of the cells were still lit . |
| 5 | Some had been coming for a year or more and spoke quite a little English . |
| 6 | Something very interesting and very clever had been happening to the Direct Line Insurance tournament at Beckenham lately . |
| 7 | Ever since the pharmaceutical company for which he worked had given him the vehicle given , thought Henry grimly ) number 47 had been watching over it in a manner that suggested an emotion deeper than motherhood , more desperate than romantic love . |
| 8 | Even in the 1660s Charles II had been complaining in London that his correspondence with his sister , the Duchess of Orleans , was being regularly opened in the French post , while from about 1748 Louis XV himself began to take a good deal of interest in work of this kind . |
| 9 | All had been festering for many years . |
| 10 | ‘ 63 teams from all over the UK took part , and it was clear that many had been training for months . |
| 11 | Many had been decomposing for several weeks . |
| 12 | When Luxembourg finally admitted what many had been saying for years , that it wants a federal EC , British federalists tried to pretend that the Luxembourgers do not mean federal when they say ‘ federal ’ . |
| 13 | Here was an opportunity many had been waiting for . |
| 14 | However , this right — for which Amnesty International had been lobbying since 1985 — was rendered meaningless by critical flaws in the proposed appeals procedure . |
| 15 | Second mission came on March 6 , 1944. it was the day all the Mighty Eighth had been waiting for . |
| 16 | Jean Campbell , in 1817 , was an uneducated deaf person without any speech who could only write the initials of her name in reverse order , eg. C.J. She was an unmarried woman who had three children by different men , one of whom at the time of her arrest in April 1817 had been living with her as a common law husband but who had a few days earlier taken off the ring that he had given to her and which she wore on her finger in the fashion of a married woman , and had left home . |
| 17 | The twenty eight year-old mother of two had been missing for six days when police frogmen pulled her submerged Renault car out of the river . |
| 18 | The elder of the two had been coming to the house for nigh on fifteen years . |
| 19 | Her heart went out to Antoinette Gebrec , as yet happily ignorant of the fate of her son , and to Philippe Bonard , whose long-cherished dream had turned to a nightmare , while the man they both loved was lying in a broken , bloody heap at the foot of the cliff . |
| 20 | It appeared that when the advocate depute addressed the jury , he submitted that the Crown case was that both accused were acting in concert in the attack upon the deceased . |
| 21 | About half of the patients had been waiting for their notes for less than six weeks , but 19 had been waiting for over six months , 14 for over a year , and six for over two years . |