Example sentences of "[noun prp] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She must , thought Morse , have put her hand over the mouthpiece , or perhaps Downes himself had been waiting silently ( for some reason ? ) beside the phone , for there was no audible summons before a man 's voice sounded in his ear . |
| 2 | If it were n't for his days at the mucky end of the trade , he would never have earned enough to buy a house and he would n't have met Raksha who had been doing a bit of topless work to supplement her salary as a nurse . |
| 3 | 19 October 1799 ; off the southern tip of the Isle of Weight she had been escorting a convoy of merchant ships through the English Channel until , in comparative safety , the convoy dispersed to their destinations . |
| 4 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 5 | ’ Bobby who had been sitting by me . |
| 6 | Nicholson himself had been attending the Manson trial , taking copious notes , and was especially keen to observe the machinations of a non-sequestered jury . |
| 7 | It is understood that the deal had been held up by the Bank of England which had been seeking some form of ‘ comfort ’ from Bank of Edinburgh 's largest minority shareholder , Scottish Amicable , with 39.2 per cent , effectively asking it to stand behind depositors and take a more active role . |
| 8 | A doctor at the scene was unable to save Mr McWhinney who had been flying alone . |
| 9 | Eve had n't known that Birdie Mac who ran the sweet shop had a man from Ballylee who had been calling for fifteen years , but she would n't leave her old mother and the man from Ballylee would n't come to Knockglen . |
| 10 | I stopped playing and tossed my trumpet to Kim who had been showering our remaining advertising leaflets on to the melee . |
| 11 | William Tidbury stated that on 11 December he had been working until late at a local farm ( this had already been borne out by the farmer ) . |
| 12 | Since the end of May it had been beating irregularly . |
| 13 | Before leaving England he had been hankering after his American roots , not only in those sections of Ash-Wednesday which recall the New England coast , but also in his prose , invoking , for instance , his old master Josiah Royce , who was now mostly forgotten , ‘ but a great philosopher in his day ’ . |
| 14 | A practical outcome from this incident was a new pair of deck shoes for Marty who had been campaigning for a replacement from Stores Branch for some time . |
| 15 | He came by taxi ( parking his car was always difficult in either place ) , arrived later than he intended , and was let in by Alison who had been crying . |
| 16 | Philip Morris itself had been testing the effects of discounting in Oregon . |
| 17 | The vendor of these two pictures had previously consigned them to Thomas Gibson who had been offering them at considerably higher prices . |
| 18 | Laidlaw waited until the prostitute was out of sight then nodded to Graham who had been standing by the tree . |
| 19 | He had told Mr Gibson they had been walking past the barn and had gone in for shelter . |
| 20 | Several analysts were confounded by the strong performance : only on Monday they had been muttering about how sustainable recent performance had been , and querying whether the share price had not run ahead of itself . |
| 21 | At Seletar he had been flying Vildebeest torpedo bombers , and he now underwent a conversion course onto the more modern Beauforts . |
| 22 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 23 | Indeed , objects used for inspiration by the artists in the nineteenth-century Paris studios were from parts of West Africa which had been making such images for European consumption for centuries ( Donne 1978 ) . |
| 24 | But , as Muz Murray pointed out to Bristol 's Occult Bookshop 's Robert Gilbert who had been attacking other underground papers , it was wrong to be too hard on the others . |
| 25 | On his much publicised appearance on the Wogan show : ‘ I got a phone call from Alex Higgins who had been watching television with his pal , Oliver Reed . |
| 26 | Since mid-July there had been mounting press speculation of imminent military action by the US and its Western allies , following a US warning on July 16 that it was determined to enforce Iraqi compliance with UN Gulf war resolutions . |
| 27 | It also ends a long wrangle between Skandia and its two largest shareholders , Hafnia and Uni Storebrand of Norway which had been trying to use their combined 43 p.c. stakes to force a three-way merger . |
| 28 | She had glimpsed Emily Grenfell who had been leaning forward in her carriage , staring out into the crowded roadway , her emeralds shining at her throat , the green richness of the stones glittering in the light from the street lamps . |
| 29 | And he concluded proceedings by almost screaming at an astonished Mrs Ann Clwyd who had been teasing him ; it was a burst of rage that rocked his high chair . |
| 30 | A moment before Melinda herself had been sitting on the bag . |