Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Dean crowd and their successors had been smoking as a regular habit ten years earlier but only now , at the height of the Vietnam crisis , when the futility of the war was beginning to dawn with the return of disillusioned young soldiers prepared at last to tell the truth , were drugs beginning to appear on the American campus scene and in London streets in any volume . |
| 2 | The brothers had been living in a penthouse flat in Bickenhall Street , west London , bought in December for £1 million cash . |
| 3 | The animals had been recovering at a wildlife sanctuary , and were ready to go back into the wild . |
| 4 | His eyes had been feeding on darkness and projections for too long , and now , presented with solid reality , they were befuddled . |
| 5 | 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 ] . |
| 6 | Then I found out my kids had been going into someone 's house and coming out with money . |
| 7 | Doubts had been growing over Merseyside 's ability to gain Objective One status and the estimated £1bn package of EC grants it could bring . |
| 8 | Because of the recession , stockpiles of ‘ new ’ cars had been waiting for a buyer for up to two years . |
| 9 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 10 | The 20,000 urns and vases had been lying in deep salt water for 302 years . |
| 11 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 12 | Strange voices had been talking inside her head forever . |
| 13 | If I shifted my weight on to the shoulder these mugs had been using as a football , the pain took away my thoughts from the throbbing ache in my head . |
| 14 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 15 | Both countries had been over-producing against their OPEC quotas for some time , helping depress prices gradually and giving rise to familiar bouts of recrimination between them and other member states with higher absorptive capacities for revenues . |
| 16 | Both countries had been speaking for some time of their desire to improve relations , without making much progress . |
| 17 | Relations with America are on the mend after months in which the two countries had been arguing about the fate of nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil . |
| 18 | This was reportedly a concession which US oil companies had been seeking for some time . |
| 19 | Throughout his life several elements had been working within him : a deep knowledge and appreciation of the countryside , a sharp mind and a willingness to learn . |
| 20 | Levels of intermarriage , in the first place , varied considerably from republic to republic and from nationality to nationality ; and although the proportion of ethnically mixed families at the national and republican level might have been increasing , it did not necessarily follow that the incidence of intermarriage between each of the major nationalities had been increasing at a similar rate . |
| 21 | The practice of selling honours had been increasing under all governments and it was becoming more marked in both parties . |
| 22 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 23 | During the final rehearsals for the 1962 Berlin recording of the Ninth , Karajan discovered that for years in the Finale 's ‘ adagio ma non troppo , ma divoto ’ the Berlin violas had been annexing for themselves the top line in a passage that is richly divided . |
| 24 | It had been a slow job , but as all this had been going on the elvers had been flooding into the basin . |
| 25 | Guests had been arriving for some time , for they had heard cars coming and going , but she had n't met any yet . |
| 26 | One of the guests had been talking about him . |
| 27 | He said Catholics had been living in fear of attack by the IRA and loyalists for over 20 years and called on Mr Taylor to withdraw his comments . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | On the first day the West Indian bowlers had been sparing with the bouncer , for on such a pitch there was no need for it . |
| 30 | But the Cossacks had been fighting for the Germans and the British Army 's main concern in Austria in May 1945 was to comply with the Yalta agreement ordering repatriation so that the Russians would honour a promise to return British prisoners of war . |