Example sentences of "[det] [noun] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Evidence was also given that Ward had been suffering from a personality disorder and was highly suggestible at the time of her arrest and trial . |
| 2 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 3 | The effect of relatively few firearms had been devastating against a warrior race with no previous experience of them . |
| 4 | Fortunately , some experience had been building up on the European continent , in Holland in particular , with DMUs which had very reliable and cost-effective engines and transmissions . |
| 5 | She might only lose her temper about once every five years , but when she lost it , boy , did she lose it , and events these last few days had been urging her dangerously near to boiling-point . |
| 6 | This microlight had been flying with the right wingtip set to maximum incidence , but with the left at one setting of reduced incidence from neutral . |
| 7 | In the course of our investigation it turned out that this character had been lying low , wanted by Bristol CID on fraud charges . ’ |
| 8 | At the same time , it should not be forgotten that some writers had been advocating the use of multiple methods for years : |
| 9 | This row , this argument had been brewing all season long . |
| 10 | Park official Fred Haala said some trippers had been harassing the crocodile . |
| 11 | The reason behind this change was that , during the pilot programme , some mothers had been confusing ‘ one pinch ’ of lobon and ‘ two scoops ’ of gur and had instead used two pinches of lobon and one scoop of gur , thereby making a dangerous hypertonic solution . |
| 12 | The anger was there , the bitterness of betrayal , the sickness that came with the understanding that another man had been caressing his wife 's nakedness . |
| 13 | He had tried to hide his fears from his poor wife and gone down to his warehouse where another message had been awaiting him : he was not to return home , the short letter instructed , but to go to the House of the Crutched Friars where his anxieties would be resolved . |
| 14 | This hip had been paining me at times again , but while we were in Wales it decided to play up properly . |
| 15 | B. A. One time , when I was coming down Commercial Road , there was a crowd gathered at the bottom of Regent Street — you accepted the fact that you had to deal with it — and this crowd had been watching a couple fighting . |
| 16 | But some travellers had been trying to reach their destinations since last night . |
| 17 | You might say that this thing had been brewing up for a long time , that the threat was there ; they had n't seen it . |
| 18 | The Yalta Repatriation agreement was the culmination of months of negotiation between the governments involved , and as the documents summarised at the end of this volume indicate [ see KPs 1–16 ] , consideration of British policy on this matter had been continuing on the highest level since the summer of 1944 . |
| 19 | Some boys had been jumping on the backs of trams , when the conductor 's attention was distracted , giving the emergency bell signal , stealing cash boxes and jumping off . |
| 20 | He told her he and Mallachy had got involved ‘ through Mallachy 's big mouth ’ in a late-club row up the Malone Road where some students had been blowing off their mouths over politics and religion , and it had almost come to blows . |
| 21 | She said she and another officer had been pursuing a red Ford Sierra car on the road between the villages of Hillam and Burton , North Yorkshire , when it suddenly stopped and a gunman got out . |
| 22 | This brother had been working in Derby for some considerable time . |
| 23 | This magic had been happening while they had been closeted with the policeman discussing the prosaic and sordid details of the burglary . |
| 24 | Now this house had been standing empty when I came in it , for twelve months . |
| 25 | Lefevre , who for some time had been shifting in his seat with every sign of impatience , relaxed and smiled . |
| 26 | If one of this teamleader 's clients said that another dealer had been trying to sell him stock , he would bellow : " What 's his name ? " |
| 27 | If such things had been happening , I would have come across them . ’ |
| 28 | Such conclusions had been growing in force in American higher education for many years , and especially since the investigation carried out by Harvie Branscomb , librarian of Duke University , in the later 19305 at the request of the Association of American Colleges . |
| 29 | ‘ In the end I could n't bear to be anywhere else , ’ she said , and added that if such practices had been going on in the islands as were alleged , everyone would have known about them . |
| 30 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |