Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eight-year-old Ian had been talking in class all through a painting lesson . |
| 2 | At least the Spanish authorities had been conducting a professional search . |
| 3 | Strange voices had been talking inside her head forever . |
| 4 | These were the first multiparty elections to be held in the Soviet Union , the Lithuanian Supreme Soviet having in December 1989 abolished the constitutionally guaranteed communist monopoly of power [ see p. 37129 ] and having earlier in February passed a new law regulating the establishment and functioning of new political parties ; in fact new or revived political parties had been emerging in Lithuania since the beginning of 1989 [ see pp. 36487 ; 36854 ] . |
| 5 | Well , I know now , though it took some time before my stupid head would accept what my infinitely more sensible heart had been trying to tell it all along . ’ |
| 6 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 7 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 8 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 9 | The twenty three year old footballer had been drinking and became involved in a brawl in Church Street after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd drunk too much . |
| 10 | Leon did n't have time over the next hour to wonder what the energetic , highly competent and reliable Wellington had been doing to make him sweat . |
| 11 | The fact that evidence and documents relating to the case had either disappeared or been tampered with and that witnesses had been threatened led members of a US Congressional investigative task force to conclude that the military high command had been controlling the investigation and limiting the number and rank of the officers to be held responsible for the crime . |
| 12 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 13 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 14 | The unemployed electrician had been living with girlfriend Andrea McCardle at the flat in Lee Park Drive , Belle Vale , for two years . |
| 15 | Since mid century , philanthropists and social reformers had been urging the removal of the population of the inner-city slums to the more salubrious outskirts of the city . |
| 16 | It looked as if Old Hubbard had been drinking again and had not shown up on Tuesday . |
| 17 | At the other end of the building some very different experiments had been going on involving nuclear physicists who knew of the existence but few of the details of ZETA . |
| 18 | Perhaps the old gods had been listening , when she 'd made her wish at the Trevi Fountain . |
| 19 | Mr Wolski knew already that the old eagle had been ailing for months now and that three weeks ago they had finally taken her out of her cage and into the veterinary block to see if there was anything they could do for her . |
| 20 | The Brigade positions had been under attack for the past four days and Nos. 3 , 4 , 6 , and 45 Royal Marine Commando had been having their share of casualties . |
| 21 | For most , there is an enduring search for bonds of love and loyalty , and other research showed that four out of five teenagers involved in a sexual relationship had been going out with their partner for six months or more . |
| 22 | Not surprisingly the British economy had been growing at only about half the average annual rate of 5.4 per cent for the EEC countries since 1953 . |
| 23 | The new aspect which foreign policy had been acquiring for two or three decades had suddenly grown to startling dimensions . |
| 24 | Following upon the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 , a whole succession of English bishops had been publishing this legislation and adding to it their own diocesan statutes ; Pecham himself in 1281 drew upon the legislation of two archbishops — Langton ( 1222 ) and Boniface ( 1261 ) — and two papal legates — Otto ( 1237 ) and Ottobuono ( 1268 ) . |
| 25 | While John Paul Jones had been captivating the ladies of Paris the French government had been preparing for the most serious attack on England since the Dutch incursion into the Medway . |
| 26 | Quietly , too , Morton confided to Edward , the stiff and priggish Chamberlain had been pulling chestnuts from the fire . |
| 27 | On 6 April , the funding miracle that the impoverished New-York Historical Society had been seeking took place . |
| 28 | It was pointed out that from the early '60s onwards some parts of British manufacturing had been facing increased economic difficuIties , in particular because of heightened international competition , which firms had been adopting strategies to counter . |
| 29 | And er an interesting thing had been coming to our house She comes goes to the same church . |
| 30 | Unbeaten all year and even expected to win by his rivals , the 26-year-old had looked odds-on to win the senior world title which British athletics had been expecting of him since he won the junior crown in 1986 . |