Example sentences of "[noun sg] had been [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 2 | The mother-of-three had been sunbathing on the hottest day of 1990 . |
| 3 | A man in a dark suit across the aisle had been working on business papers since New York . |
| 4 | Rachel asked suddenly as they drank black coffee , because the question had been burning on her mind for some time , and she told herself it was important strategically to find out , although she suspected the truth was that he fascinated her . |
| 5 | Both accounts demonstrate that , until Stanislav Ulam 's observation that X-rays could be used to propagate an instant fusion reaction , Teller had been working on a fundamentally impractical design . |
| 6 | The rain had been beating on him for hours , on him and his comrades , not only here but wherever they had been when they met their deaths ; their clothes , their very hair , had a flattened , dead look . |
| 7 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 8 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 9 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
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| 11 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 12 | The young man had been standing on the platform at Portslade station in East Sussex yesterday shortly before the London to Brighton train passed . |
| 13 | Jeopardy and Amber had been working on a piece which they intended to perform when Mandru returned home . |
| 14 | September sunshine had been shining on it ever since Leyton . |
| 15 | The cast and crew of The Viking had been filming on location and , finding herself for once with little to do , she 'd taken a break to watch the great Dane Jacobsen in action . |
| 16 | The Yalta Repatriation agreement was the culmination of months of negotiation between the governments involved , and as the documents summarised at the end of this volume indicate [ see KPs 1–16 ] , consideration of British policy on this matter had been continuing on the highest level since the summer of 1944 . |
| 17 | Maggie remembered how the building had been rocking on its foundations . |
| 18 | It was clear that Thomas Grenfell had made more than his share of mistakes , it seemed that The Fine Leather Trading Company had been overspending on labour and without the expected turnover in goods moved and sold . |
| 19 | After such drawings became fashionable ( and thus more expensive ) in recent years , Bean had been concentrating on filling in gaps in the Metropolitan 's collection of nineteenth-century French drawings , purchasing sheets by the academic painters Henri Lehmann , Isadore Pils , Ferdinand Cormon and Hippolyte Flandrin . |
| 20 | The couple had been lying on it . |
| 21 | Cos me and my brother had been working on wagon again . |
| 22 | He had been reading the notes of Wittgenstein , he said , who before his death had been working on the relation between the private , sensuous experience of colour and the universal language of colour words with which we appear to be able to communicate it . |
| 23 | Dai 's family had been working on the farmlands around Rhydoldog for generations . |