Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [vb past] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mordecai had said that he usually approached the shop through the bazaar , and that was the side they had been watching . |
| 2 | No one was jumping for joy because they 'd finally got the piece they 'd been searching for for years . |
| 3 | Once again there was a flurry of bodies from the doorway they had been defending and another charge . |
| 4 | Maybe this was the break they had been waiting for . |
| 5 | Chris described to her in painstaking detail the story of the cartoon they 'd been watching . |
| 6 | Source C " The impression left on the minds of those who heard the speech , after the first sensations of surprise had passed , was that the whole thing had been arranged long before and that , while in the Cabinet and committee they had been making panic stricken efforts to balance the budget , the whole business had been a humbug and make-believe . " |
| 7 | All over Spain , rebel officers put into action the plan they had been elaborating since December of the previous year . |
| 8 | While at Croydon SSD , Ambache had to support his director in a battle with a while couple who wanted to adopt a black child they had been fostering . |
| 9 | One moment they had been crossing a burning glade of shoulder-high grass in the full glare of the sun and the next they descended abruptly into a dark , silent , mysterious world where the air was cool and moist , the earth soft and spongy underfoot , and dazzling orchids blazed suddenly among the deep green undergrowth . |
| 10 | There was restrained optimism among Wickham 's team that this could be the lead they had been waiting for . |
| 11 | They had been crossing a scree ; there had been many loose stones , and footing was difficult , but surely at that point they had been traversing a gentler slope , and her employer had actually been standing on a flattish stretch of granite when she had fallen . |
| 12 | Later that evening they had been sitting in a restaurant and Maggie had looked at Tom and said , her delicate face and long neck almost visibly aquiver with pleasure , |
| 13 | Over his shoulder he saw the looming shape of Arthur Dooley , the main singer of the group they 'd been listening to . |
| 14 | Lead miners in the northern Pennines were earning 10s ( 50p ) a week by 1797 and 11s 6d ( 57½p ) by 1815 , whereas before the war they had been earning 7s 6d ( 37½p ) ; a money-wage increase of around 50 per cent over the war years seems indicated , implying a real-wage fall of about 10 per cent . |
| 15 | For her parents Fran and Les , it was the day they had been waiting for . |
| 16 | ‘ All Friday night they 'd been showing Sheedy free kicks on the box . |
| 17 | The powerful midfielder , Mauro Silva , was the playmaker they had been looking to build the team around . |
| 18 | The scenery they 'd been flashing through was spectacular , endless coconut and banana palms , glimpses of white sand and water , fluttering green against deep blue and silver . |
| 19 | As she walked out of the workshop , she looked back at the flat they had been painting . |
| 20 | They opened her up , but could see no trace of the ulcer they had been expecting to find . |
| 21 | DETECTIVES investigating an alleged attack on two prisoners found unconscious in their cell were yesterday working on the theory they had been fighting each other . |
| 22 | A frisson of disbelief and unease passed though the male patrons as the woman they had been watching in simulated copulation on the screen materialised in the flesh before their very eyes . |
| 23 | When the judge called the jury back this afternoon they 'd been considering their verdict for one and a half days . |
| 24 | By the time Iran had attacked a Kuwaiti , a Saudi and then a Liberian tanker ( the last of these caught near the principal Saudi terminal at Ras Tanura ) , the GCC states had begun to recognize this sequence — as it was doubtless intended — as a signal to distance themselves from Iraq in the light of the support they had been providing for Baghdad . |
| 25 | Bernard and Laura escaped on to their sailing boat for much of the summer , a yacht they had been enjoying for some years now , and they pottered around Mykonos in Greece . |
| 26 | The parents were outraged ; the managers had got the opportunity they had been waiting for . |
| 27 | It was the man they had been talking about at Christmas dinner . |
| 28 | It is surprising how quickly the survivors returned to the civilized life they had been living before . |
| 29 | Tom Dawson had hovered on the brink between life and death , and all the time they had worked so desperately to save him , she had been aware that it was n't just one life they had been fighting for but two . |
| 30 | She preached about the passover , a subject they had been studying at Bible camp , and obviously made a good impression . |