Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton ! |
| 2 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 3 | Karen said : ‘ I know Rebecca had been feeling homesick , but she got a new job which was keeping her busy . |
| 4 | Police said that their two accomplices arrested in Ireland had been carrying several addresses of safe houses in France . |
| 5 | Previously Gould had been making other extraordinary discoveries from Darwin 's collection . |
| 6 | Jake had been hurling these same insults at her now for years , and by now she ought to be totally immune to them . |
| 7 | It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding . |
| 8 | He was not , in fact , the first to work with the Longhorns : a blacksmith named Welby living on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire had been attempting systematic improvement of the type using animals from the Derbyshire herd of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow House , Burton-on-Trent ( a herd which by 1720 was already uniform and impressively well matched for shape and colour ) , and a Mr Webster of Canley , near Coventry , bred animals from the same herd with stock from Westmorland and Lancashire . |
| 9 | Aplin had been asking many questions about Putt , not only in connection with the robberies but with the rape of Anna too . |
| 10 | News broke that Steven Jones , a physicist at Brigham Young University ( BYU ) — 30 miles from Salt Lake City and rival of the University of Utah — and a team from BYU had been studying cold fusion for years independently of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 11 | Subjects of the King of England had been doing this in Ireland ever since Strongbow 's invasion in 1169 . |
| 12 | The device worked exactly as DeVore had said , but the truth was that he had access only to Tongjiang , and that only because Hans Ebert had been daring enough to take the thing in , risking the possibility that an over-zealous officer might search him , Tolonen 's favourite or no . |
| 13 | Simon had been growing restless , but all of a sudden he spotted someone with whom he could discuss yesterday 's success . |
| 14 | He said well Karen had been getting moody . |
| 15 | I 've had this twice and each time its been , its been other people , because his got a lot of goods people 's belongings out of one cupboard into another and the second time round there 's been purgatory because he brought Karen 's house , her hoover and the saucepans and everything that was his , everything that belonged to him but he said that before , I said why was Michelle able to jumped in between him and Karen , he said well Karen had been getting moody , and he said Karen was getting bored , Paul is boring , she 's told Paul that his boring boring . |
| 16 | Her tone betrayed the fact that she had been keyed up about it ever since the procedure had been done this morning at the obstetrician 's consulting-rooms , and Belinda hoped Faye had been keeping careful tabs on her blood-sugar level in case it was being affected by her mood . |
| 17 | For three or four years now , Mrs Mandelbaum had been giving free English classes in her home . |
| 18 | Richard used a new toothbrush which Martin had been saving fresh from the cellophane . |
| 19 | It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself . |
| 20 | If Lewis had been learning more than he knew before about humility , Williams had been learning more than he knew before about medieval literature . |
| 21 | Turned out she wanted to know if Uncle Adam had been sending any radio messages . |
| 22 | Gilbert had been standing next to them and almost fell down the stairs in his efforts to get away from those doors as something shouldered them open . |
| 23 | Weir had been piling one office upon another , and had recently added to his collection that of sheriff-substitute in the Nether-ward of Lanarkshire , although , as his friend Andrew Gardner urgently pointed out to the duke , this was a precarious place which was held only during the pleasure of the sheriff-depute of Lanarkshire . |
| 24 | Before the war Jordan had been importing some 55,000 barrels a day from Iraq at a fixed price of US$16.40 , well below the market rate . |
| 25 | Glass had been earning some money by transcribing Ravi Shankar 's score for the film , Chappacqua . |
| 26 | Gebrec had been wearing blue slacks yesterday morning . |
| 27 | Besides , he could just imagine Cashman 's fury if he discovered that Cindy had been staying unchaperoned with Matthew . |
| 28 | It incorporates information about pre-literate society into the wider theoretical edifice which Engels and Marx had been building all their lives . |
| 29 | GPA had been developing such new forms of finance , he said , most notably with the launch of ALPS92–1 — the first publicly rated aircraft fund . |
| 30 | Miles had been dropping heavy hints about how difficult it was to get petrol and how he intended to use the Cortina ‘ for emergency uses only ’ . |