Example sentences of "[noun prp] [noun] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Allan Stewart had been itching to speak . |
| 2 | Von Stein had been checking the wall clock in the laboratory then looking back at his notes for some time . |
| 3 | Ever since the two disastrous meetings she had had recently about Matilda , the first with the Headmistress and the second with the dreadful Mr and Mrs Wormwood , Miss Honey had been thinking a great deal about this child and wondering how she could help her . |
| 4 | Mr Justice Otton was told they regretted helping to give currency to the allegation that John Major and Miss Latimer had been conducting an adulterous relationship . |
| 5 | David Lyell had been returning to Britain from Carolina as a member of the crew of a merchant vessel when his ship was intercepted by a cruiser and he was impressed for service in an undermanned warship . |
| 6 | I suppose Miss Martindale had been baiting you ? |
| 7 | While we talked Miss Sowerby had been cleaning up the patient with the head wound and , as the man prepared to leave , Reid cried to him , ‘ Head feel'um better ? ’ |
| 8 | Miss Bayliss had been visiting her brother with her cousin Brian Barton , 21 , who was also strip searched . |
| 9 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 10 | Maisie Dougall had been listening to her friends going on and she thought it was about time she made a contribution . |
| 11 | Graham and Miss Gibson had been living at his house on the Riddings Estate in Scunthorpe but split up after a row on Monday night . |
| 12 | Of course — the other day at the Rose Bowl , when Miss Philimore had been demonstrating her system for dealing with ‘ standing orders ’ . |
| 13 | Miss Malabedeely had been kneeling by a chair , praying , and Kate had thought immediately that she 'd been asking God to stop Miss Shaw and Miss Rist being so unpleasant to her . |
| 14 | Till now , Ken Livingstone had been putting up a good show , joking about John Smith serving as his deputy and arguing for defence cuts to pay for benefits rather than tax increases . |
| 15 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 16 | Mother Francis had been putting off her visit to Mother Clare as long as possible . |
| 17 | Ewen Mackay had been staring hard at the other man while they talked . |
| 18 | Mr Pollards father david also gave evidence , saying in a statement how Gary Burn had been sobbing hystericaly when tring to explain to him what had happened . |
| 19 | Since about mid-June , the Khmers Rouges had been refusing the chief co-ordinator of the UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia ( UNTAC ) , Yasushi Akashi , access to areas they controlled around Pailin , reports said , even though the peace agreement , which they had signed together with the three other factions , gave him authority to travel anywhere . |
| 20 | While , however , Admiral Hawke had been keeping a vigilant eye on Brest , Admiral Edward Boscawen had been busily patrolling off Toulon . |
| 21 | So with eight of the world 's top golfers within five shots of each other and eight different nationalities represented , the stage was set for the grandstand finish which Hammond Wilde had been dreaming about for the best part of a year . |
| 22 | Since early February oyster-catchers had been arriving back from spending the winter around the big estuaries of mainland Britain and by the end of March were well distributed in coastal areas . |
| 23 | Manager Alan Murray had been looking for somebody to replace the unlucky Saville , who broke his arm hours after his Pool debut a fortnight ago in a freak restaurant accident . |
| 24 | Linford , despite his shenanigans , was quietly confident ; Ray Stewart had been improving in recent weeks , as had the fast-starting American Lee Macrae . |
| 25 | Jones also suggested to Ryszard Gajewski , the administrator of the Advanced Energy Program at the DOE , that he inform Fleischmann and Pons that the BYU group had been doing similar work on piezonuclear fusion since 1986 and that cooperation between the two universities , which are only some 50 miles apart , would be a great benefit . |
| 26 | Louisa was surprised by the arrival and glad of it , for young Frank Wharton had been ragging mercilessly her occasional graceless descents to the ice , petticoats and undergarments protruding from her skirt , skates flailing above them . |
| 27 | Melissa played thoughtfully with her empty coffee mug and reflected on what now seemed the certainty that Rodney Shergold had been having an affair with Angy . |
| 28 | Dr Kelleher had been working in close cooperation with Dr Laurent and there had been long consultations in the Pathology Lab . |
| 29 | A colleague working in the laboratory to which Dr Sasaki had been walking was dead ; Dr Sasaki 's patient whom he had just left was also dead . |
| 30 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |