Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Hart , a big man with a beard , had been teaching for nineteen years . |
| 32 | Friends say she never recovered from hearing Gilbey , who she had been dating for two years , tell Diana he loved her — 53 times in the 23 minute call . |
| 33 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 34 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 35 | Essentially the case involved a youth leader of the Red Cross , who admitted joining the Red Cross to bring him closer to young girls , whom he had been abusing for thirty years . |
| 36 | However , this right — for which Amnesty International had been lobbying since 1985 — was rendered meaningless by critical flaws in the proposed appeals procedure . |
| 37 | Intending to be a priest of the Church of England , I lost my faith , slowly but painfully , and at the end of the summer left Oxford and the house in Norham Gardens in which I had been living for two years and in which , by a curious turn of fortune , my office now is . |
| 38 | Roddy Lou Thai was not pleased at all to be questioned by two representatives of the repressive Imperialist Government , under whose chauvinistic wing he had been living for four years . |
| 39 | Lisa had been smoking for twenty years and felt unable to stop for more than a day . |
| 40 | They had been flying for 16 hours 12 minutes , had survived two bad storms and had flown over 1,800 miles of ocean . |
| 41 | She had been flying for twelve years , had studied with her father who flew Concorde as a senior British Airways captain , and had soloed on her seventeenth birthday . |
| 42 | Thirty nine infants ( 18% ) in group A and 44 ( 24% ) in group B had been vomiting for three weeks or more before admission . |
| 43 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 44 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
| 45 | In the end , Clara , exasperated beyond endurance , brought up once more the possibility of cremation ( not daring to mention , even in her own mind , which had not quite forsaken filial tenderness , the possibility of the once-praised dust cart ) and Mrs Maugham , square , immutable , said quite astonishingly for her , and invoking sanctions she had been deriding for thirty years , that ashes must go to ashes and dust to dust . |
| 46 | She had been gesturing with one hand , to emphasize what she said . |
| 47 | Direct Line Insurance is Britain 's largest direct insurer and had been running at 100,000 new policies or thereabouts for three years . |
| 48 | Shortly before the February 1992 meeting it had been reported that OPEC production in January had been running at 24,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , about 70,000 bpd above the level in December 1991 and the highest levels since the 25,000,000 bpd recorded in 1980 . |
| 49 | Take Benjamin Gribble for instance , on the settling day in March 1847 of a contract which had been running for 5 months : |
| 50 | Mark Turnball , one of the business partners behind Lemmings , said the firm had been running for two years , organising events in many parts of the country . |
| 51 | Unit trust savings schemes had been running for 20 years , but investment trust savings schemes did not start until 1984 . |
| 52 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 53 | EC Education Ministers agreed on Dec. 14 , 1989 , at a meeting in Brussels to extend the Erasmus programme of inter-university exchanges , which had been running since 1988 , for a further five years from 1990 to 1994 . |
| 54 | Such a strategy underpinned the demonstration project which had been running since 1977 in Eindhoven and Rijswijk . |
| 55 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 56 | So achieving Marchbanks was a gradual and thoughtful affair — I remember being taken aside by the director and given a whole day after we had been rehearsing for two weeks and simply talking together about the play and about ourselves which was the real making of the part over the next weeks of final rehearsal . |
| 57 | But he was now , and only now , moving towards the rejection of those mutual accommodations between king and Church , which the Hildebrandine party in the Church had been denouncing for twenty years . |
| 58 | He really did n't think the Revolution was anything more than a few peasants kicking up a fuss , like they had been doing for hundreds of years . |
| 59 | By then , some of the crowd had been waiting for 5 or 6 hours and many were becoming restive . |
| 60 | I went there and found that people who had been waiting for four hours or more had still not received satisfaction . |