Example sentences of "[vb past] be [v-ing] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going . |
| 2 | Yeah , well even Laura like she eats salad at school like you know , but erm , she 's got erm , what did we have the other night cos we 'd been eating semi semi Mediterranean food this week |
| 3 | She 'd worn slacks all through rehearsals and the only other times he 'd seen her she 'd been wearing that dreary suit . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'd been planning that very thing . ’ |
| 5 | Erm and people had been paying insurance i it changed then cos some of the farmers could go on their pension they 'd been paying this new scheme you see . |
| 6 | ‘ All Friday night they 'd been showing Sheedy free kicks on the box . |
| 7 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 8 | Four of them had been taking non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) for a mean period of 10 ( range one to 18 ) months for arthritis and remarkably one of these had DU in spite of having pentagastrin fast achlorhydria due to pernicious anaemia . |
| 9 | Robyn 's mother , Vera Williams , of Wilton Village , who is now looking after Penny , said since her daughter had her baby she had suffered postnatal depression and had been taking various prescribed drugs . |
| 10 | The Midlands ' shop stewards knew it was only a question of time before the strike affected supplies to their own plants and those in the South , jeopardising the recovery plan which had been producing such vast improvements in performance . |
| 11 | William IV died shortly afterwards and it has been written that , a search being instituted , it was found that that bluff and breezy monarch had been using this unique ancient artifact as a shaving mug ! |
| 12 | It was pointed out that from the early '60s onwards some parts of British manufacturing had been facing increased economic difficuIties , in particular because of heightened international competition , which firms had been adopting strategies to counter . |
| 13 | However , she pointed out that as far back as 1980 , the Sports Council had been recommending all governing bodies to charge a minimum subscription of £2.00 per person . |
| 14 | It seems that for some time the firm had been issuing such promissory notes and having them endorsed by its local bank in Bihać ( where , incidentally , the partisans held the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council for the Liberation of Yugoslavia ) . |
| 15 | She had been wearing blue faded jeans , and a white sweat shirt flattened against the pointed nipples and the upturned breasts ; the cotton seeming too thin a protection against the freshening onshore breeze . |
| 16 | He had been doodling obsessive box-like designs , a nest of interlocking right-angled lines locking out all possibility of error or surprise . |
| 17 | The US concession to cease production was a major factor , since it had been developing new binary systems but had not produced enough to replace the existing 25,000 tonnes of stocks . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | On closer questioning it was found that he had been harbouring strong transsexual feelings for some while and that the injury resulted from an urge to initiate a sex change . |
| 20 | Mining operations for oil-shale and coal had been providing much new information which showed that the original maps of Central Scotland were inaccurate in places . |
| 21 | In February the authorities had said that the three had been providing unspecified international agencies with information on human rights in Egypt and on public opinion with respect to the economic situation . |
| 22 | The aim of the seminars was to bring together everyone who had been conducting social anthropological fieldwork in Scotland recently . |
| 23 | He had been conducting this little enterprise since the age of twelve , wearing false moustaches and passing for sixteen . |
| 24 | The Polish leadership , headed by Edward Gierek , had been experiencing increasing economic difficulties during the 1970s as an overambitious expansion programme began to founder and foreign debts began to mount . |
| 25 | In some odd way he was not a stranger because his name was painfully familiar and she imagined she had been expecting this angry arrival since her accident — that must be the cause of this feeling that was swimming through her . |
| 26 | The results of the Concorde trial came as ‘ a considerable shock ’ , he says , particularly to those who had been expecting some positive outcome , however small . |
| 27 | He had been reading some fine sentiments in a little book of Carlyle 's , his Heroes and Hero-Worship . |
| 28 | These 42ft vehicles were sleeping saloons and , after they had been running some little time , some ordinary coaches 34ft in length , carried on six wheels , were built ; these had a total wheel base of 22ft , or 11 ft between centres . |
| 29 | Also at the conference were two Australian ex-professional sprinters , John Dinan and Chris Perry , who had been running some fast times during the Antipodean summer . |
| 30 | p.48 ) ; ‘ R. D. B. Fraser … had been doing some serious playing with three-chain models ’ ( ibid . |