Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can certainly agree with my hon. Friend — that incident was most regrettable , particularly in light of the fact that the human rights record of Indonesia had been improving in recent years . |
| 2 | He was conscious that Therese had been engaging in ‘ business ’ but had n't appreciated how it had looked from the front until it was too late to do anything about it . |
| 3 | In 1911 Wren had been working in India for less than eight years . |
| 4 | John Dalton eventually elicited the truth of his identity from him and offered him sanctuary as a hermit in his own home ( perhaps Richard had been reconnoitring in his disappearance before dinner ) and at his own expense . |
| 5 | Aoun had been living in the French embassy in Beirut since Syrian and Lebanese forces toppled his " government " in October 1990 [ see p. 37792 ] . |
| 6 | Vesa had been living in a small apartment in the Mids since their aunt had died a year back . |
| 7 | The trial , on 4 February , heard that Shiloh had been running in a race at Carfin dog track in August last year when he broke his leg . |
| 8 | I would not presume to add anything to the Word of God but I have a sneaking suspicion that if Isaiah had been writing in the 1990s he might have added a phrase . |
| 9 | The usher explained that Eva had been working in Africa and was now principal of an international college . |
| 10 | His solicitor Bob Emuss said that the defendant , who until February had been living in Surrey , had wanted to move to the Kingsley area . |
| 11 | For some years now Pecham had been lecturing in Rome where he was noted for his austerity , his learning and his authoritarianism . |
| 12 | Mr Wilson had been celebrating in an aunt 's house just after tea when he disappeared , and the family had assumed he had gone home . ’ |
| 13 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 14 | At the time Patten had been sitting in his Smith Square office , gently smoothing the bags beneath his eyes . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Since Willie was so desperate to be accepted in Mrs Hartridge 's class Tom had been helping in every possible way . |
| 17 | Long before Sartre developed his own form of Marxist-Hegelian history , Bachelard had been working in a critical relation to Hegelian historicism . |
| 18 | Assistant county secretary David Spicer said the SSD had been acting in the spirit of the Children Act by trying to avoid ‘ coercive ’ measures such as care orders . |
| 19 | Horst and Jurgen had been whistling in the dark . |
| 20 | A few miles later , Rogers asked what Gabriel had been doing in the church . |
| 21 | Cricket in Australia had been declining in popularity for some years , not helped by an abject England team two seasons before , and the excitement that West Indies generated by their enterprising play was unbounded , culminating in a vast ticker-tape send-off when the tour was over . |
| 22 | Dr Kelleher had been working in close cooperation with Dr Laurent and there had been long consultations in the Pathology Lab . |
| 23 | She was a close friend of the Duchess of Portland and , when staying with her at Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire , December 1753 , reported that Philip Miller had been working in the library and , On another occasion when they met , she commented on his reticence . |
| 24 | She and Jack had been swimming in the Thames near Twickenham . |
| 25 | Jack had been sitting in the chair while Franca stood before him . |
| 26 | The only systematic disentanglement from corporatist theorizing and policy analysis of the administrative component was by R. E. Pahl and J. T. Winkler , writing at a time when it seemed that Britain had been developing in the direction of corporatism for the previous fifteen years and was experiencing sectoral planning , planning agreements and statutory or voluntary controls over prices , profit margins , dividends , wages , rents and the movement of capital . |
| 27 | Comdisco had been playing in a high stakes financial game known as risk arbitrage , hoping to get ahead of the rapid run-up in a company 's share price when it became the object of a takeover ( or the reversal of fortune that occurred when a takeover fell apart ) . |
| 28 | The sensible thing would have been to say that Crabb had been diving in the area to test out equipment and had got into difficulties , surfaced near the Russian ships and then drowned . |
| 29 | Since then Mr Crangle had been working in secret on another expedition . |
| 30 | The loss of Ozawa was seen by many as a serious blow to Kaifu 's position , not least because it removed the chief architect of the process of co-operation between the LDP , Komeito and the DSP which Ozawa had been constructing in the Diet . |