Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inflation figure confounded economic analysts , most of whom had been predicting a much smaller reduction . |
| 2 | ‘ Green ? ’ said one of the small boys , all of whom had been following the conversation as closely as the men . |
| 3 | She could see it in the covert glances of the London girls , some of whom had been planning how to look at the Belvoir dance for the past month . |
| 4 | people died by their own hand here in 1992 , the majority of whom had been suffering from depression . |
| 5 | Like everyone else , I 'd come to Hawaii for the waves , but some clandestine part of me had been plotting all along to make love on the beach beneath a palm tree . |
| 6 | The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings . |
| 7 | Four of them had been taking non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) for a mean period of 10 ( range one to 18 ) months for arthritis and remarkably one of these had DU in spite of having pentagastrin fast achlorhydria due to pernicious anaemia . |
| 8 | One of them had been watching him recently . |
| 9 | Thirty of them had been drinking so heavily that they forgot to get off at Peterborough to catch their connection to Harwich . |
| 10 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |
| 11 | The 17 defendants were convicted on the strength of two groups of evidence : their confessions made in police custody , and forensic tests which found that various of them had been handling explosives shortly before the bombings . |
| 12 | Which of them had been reading The Book of Poisons ? |
| 13 | I was amazed to realise that some of them had been using their machines for five years and had no idea of the machines capabilities because all the instructions are written in either English , Spanish or Japanese ; nothing in Thai . |
| 14 | Some of them had been mopping the floor ; some washing plates and cups ; some just running , not carrying anything , but speedy and purposeful all the same . |
| 15 | Afterwards , he felt it had been as if each of them had been waiting for the other to touch on a delicate subject . |
| 16 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 17 | It was n't intended ; none of them had been paying any attention to the world round about : they 'd all but walked into one another . |
| 18 | For English fans , though , there was pleasure that their team had begun to show heart and direction and purpose , all of which had been missing since the Ashes tour of 1986–7 ; while West Indian fans were just happy that their heroes had shown that , after all , W.B. Yeats had got it wrong and the centre could hold . |
| 19 | At last she could admit honestly to herself that some part of her had been waiting all evening for this moment when her own self-imposed barriers would be swept away . |
| 20 | But it still left the question of who had been ringing her . |
| 21 | Peregrine switched the wireless off , imitating the stilted tones of whoever had been reading the news . |
| 22 | While he had been talking like an estate agent , getting his full value out of the situation , the full embarrassment of it had been dawning on Jenna . |
| 23 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 24 | Subsequent work by David Foulkes and others , showed that the very striking differences between experience during REM bursts and REM quiescence was not as great when subjects were questioned at any length , rather than being allowed to make spontaneous reports of what had been going on in their minds . |
| 25 | And they were probably unaware of the scale of what had been happening , not just in their own field of Public Libraries , which was bad enough , but across the whole spectrum of British Public Institutional Libraries . |
| 26 | The restructuring approach tended to focus more on detailed investigation of what had been happening in a small number of cases , in a particular industry perhaps . |
| 27 | She must be losing her marbles , because she 'd absolutely no recollection of what had been happening during the past few minutes … ! |
| 28 | Defence counsel said the girls ' mother had no knowledge of what had been happening . |
| 29 | Then the toilet flushed and we wrenched violently apart , as though each of us had been struggling to get free all along . |
| 30 | If any one of us had been touching a wall above ground we 'd have been part of the bloody architecture by now . ’ |