Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had spent many pleasant evenings here ; and Catherine 's parents had been trusting enough to withdraw to the morning room , leaving them alone together . |
| 2 | Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends ! |
| 3 | Rovers had been feeling better on Monday , November 1 , when the F.A . |
| 4 | US negotiators had been seeking such an agreement since shortly after Endara 's government was installed following the overthrow of the Noriega regime by US military intervention in December 1989 . |
| 5 | Individually , the two bands had been doing OK but nothing outrageous . |
| 6 | That would only be necessary if the troops had been requisitioning other people 's equipment . |
| 7 | This was prompted by reports that the two governments had been providing logistic support for UNITA — South African Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha , hitherto a negotiator in the conflict [ see p. 39129 ] , had been declared persona non grata on Nov. 6 , apparently in response to these reports . |
| 8 | The Midlands ' plants had been putting great pressure on the Merseysiders to call off the strike , as a result of which a mass meeting at Pier Head , Liverpool , had been demanded to vote on the question of a return to work . |
| 9 | A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night . |
| 10 | Until now , the organisers had been expecting 15,000 participants ( 10,000 competitors and 5,000 officials ) , and the Olympic village was constructed with this in mind . |
| 11 | It was then getting on for three in the morning , but in the last quarter of an hour things had been getting better . |
| 12 | For many years the Accounting Standards Committee ( the ASC ) of the accountancy bodies had been producing valuable Statements of Standard Accounting Practice ( SSAPs ) and had done its best to ensure that they were observed — not always successfully since the Statements had no statutory recognition . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Me and all my friends had been having this really great scuttle . |
| 15 | Seaside entrepreneurs had been feeding this appetite , building this market , for several generations already . |
| 16 | Somalia said that its forces had been pursuing anti-government rebels . |
| 17 | We discovered later that a crowd of drop-outs had been living rough on the Towers , using local fishing boats to ferry them to and fro . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's Fergie , ’ someone said , and within seconds Charles and Diana were left staring at an empty patch of snow where a moment before dozens of photographers had been elbowing one another for the best position . |
| 19 | The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years . |
| 20 | This was in response to reports that Collor 's main political advisers had been using federal funds to solicit the votes of the 168 deputies needed to fend off the impeachment initiative . |
| 21 | Over the eighteenth century higher London wages had been driving some manufactures into the country . |
| 22 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 23 | Neither he nor his partner was asked about family backgrounds , possible problems , or whether any of the children had been presenting any unusual symptoms . |
| 24 | The Sons had been running short of funds . |
| 25 | The West Germans had been using this technique to stimulate postwar rebuilding since the 1950s , and the Department of the Environment clearly saw some parallels . |
| 26 | The agents had been investigating two terrorist attacks on the Israeli airline , El Al , at Orly airport . |
| 27 | But others had been celebrating all night . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | For a change of subject , they chose Sniffy Wilson , one of them having heard how colleagues had been tailing two armed members of the Goad gang , Donovan and Wytcherly , and at the end of a hair-raising fifteen minutes found they had arrested Sniffy as well . |
| 30 | Ecclesiastical dignitaries had been contemplating certain reforms of their own , but pressure for a radical approach to the church 's problems had been generated by a rank-and-file priest and by laymen . |