Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [be] [v-ing] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finding that the Middlesbrough , Shields and Seaham branches had been accumulating funds , the Sunderland officials demanded that any surplus cash should be handed over to them at head office , threatening , according to Wilson 's account , " drastic action " if they failed to do so . |
| 2 | The Revolution had taken place , the Revolutioners had been singing songs , and one of the people present at this dinner , this banquet , said , what we need is something different , something new , we need a new war song . |
| 3 | Just previous to our visit to this latter small harbour a well known German smuggling vessel had been coopering off the coast and local boats had been landing cases of spirits . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Before their attack 374 ( 24% ) patients had been receiving bronchodilators alone ( step 1 ) ; in 147 ( 39% ) maintenance treatment was unchanged or reduced after their attack , and 227 ( 61% ) were prescribed medication from step 2 or beyond . |
| 6 | The naturalists had been studying plants on the island of Steep Holme off Weston-super-Mare when conditions deteriorated and their boat developed engine trouble . |
| 7 | For example , if the words prior to dogs/clogs had been raining cats and then it would be fairly safe to say that the intended word was dogs . |
| 8 | Opposition parties led by the Sri Lanka Freedom Party ( SLFP ) tabled a no confidence motion , due for debate in October , over revelations that the security forces had been providing arms to the LTTE in late 1989 . |
| 9 | Our club members had been knitting cushions for charity and at the beginning of question time Georgie asked if she could tell the story of her cushion . |
| 10 | To Zvi , Wine was an upstart — an interloper who had suddenly appeared in the community a year ago ( real name , Zvi had been told , was Benny Wineberg from Brighton ) , set up as a dentist , and by charging ludicrously low fees had been taking clients from Zvi . |
| 11 | Obviously the police had been making enquiries about the Sally Nash case . |
| 12 | Surveys had shown that X-ray doses vary by a factor of 20 or 30 between different hospitals , and that about a quarter of all hospitals had been giving patients unnecessarily high doses . |
| 13 | The result was the abolition in February 1844 of the Secret Office which for generations had been intercepting letters of possible interest to the government . |
| 14 | Members of the special constabulary and traffic wardens had been staffing telephones to deal with the ‘ tremendous ’ response from the public : every hour they were taking 150 calls . |
| 15 | Lord Justice Waller said he was ‘ quite satisfied that the Judge had ample grounds to make him sure that the appellants had been telling lies ’ . |
| 16 | State enterprises had been hoarding goods rather than sell them at unprofitable retail prices , thereby exacerbating shortages in the shops [ see p. 37902 ] . |