Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [been] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | His eyes had been feeding on darkness and projections for too long , and now , presented with solid reality , they were befuddled . |
| 2 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | If anyone had doubted that the gods had been smiling on British athletics that August week in Stuttgart , the final event must have convinced them . |
| 5 | Crews and owners had been reflecting on how best to continue to operate in the Gulf . |
| 6 | All these trees had been growing on peat do you see , and the peat was dry . |
| 7 | And the wives had been living on credit to the grocer in the village . |
| 8 | A couple of scientists had been working on Edgeøya for most of the summer , and this young bear had appeared near the old trapper 's hut they were staying in ( which was near the beach where we had landed ) . |
| 9 | The men had been working on 415 volt switchgear at Caldervale High School . |
| 10 | Some boys had been jumping on the backs of trams , when the conductor 's attention was distracted , giving the emergency bell signal , stealing cash boxes and jumping off . |
| 11 | A herd of cows had been standing on the other side , and Blunt watched them stampede away , fanning out like clumsy messengers with news for all parts . |
| 12 | He liked swimming too and in the summer had built a raft , but it had disintegrated in the middle of the river while he and the twins had been sitting on it . |