Example sentences of "[n mass] [vb past] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big fish had been making for deep water all afternoon and Trent had n't seen a bird for the past hour . |
| 2 | Headteacher Terry Anderson said staff had been struggling in the cramped conditions since the school was opened in 1985 . |
| 3 | of the people had been smoking at the meeting . |
| 4 | Living Dead and Terminator slippers — people had been queuing for them for God 's sake — were being returned unused to the shops and credit notes cashed in for balls of wool and packets of scraperboard . |
| 5 | People had been wandering past us and paying the man in the booth in the white lodge and I 'd been envying them opening their purses and their wallets and shelling out all that money . |
| 6 | more than seemed to be indicated in the figures that we 've got , because Buck 's figures for the extent of supplementary income are I know they 're significant but they 're not enough to the kinds of levels people had been living at . |
| 7 | The two young people had been sitting in silence for most of the time Nahum had been upstairs , Seb gazing morosely into the fire and Carrie reading at the kitchen table . |
| 8 | Other people had been asking about Vecchi , too . |
| 9 | ‘ These people had been fighting against their own country , against Marshal Tito who had been recognised as an ally by the British Government , ’ Lord Aldington said . |
| 10 | People had been waiting for years for freedom ‘ and they 've now had enough ’ . |
| 11 | My hon. Friend may remember that , in 1980 , a quarter of a million people had been waiting for more than two months for telephones to be connected . |
| 12 | MPs had been pressing for an enquiry following the publication of a damning report on the state of school discipline by the Professional Association of Teachers in 1987 , which was given prominent coverage in the press . |
| 13 | The officer commanding the militia had been listening to the conversation between the two men with growing unease . |
| 14 | It 's believed the deer had been struggling in the snare for more than two days before it was found . |