Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On one occasion Lord Mountbatten had found him licking his wounds and asked if the Prince had been upsetting him . |
| 2 | Now all this hinted , I 'm sure you 'll agree , that the split had been brewing , indeed planned for some time . |
| 3 | The worst violence yesterday was in the western city of David where the trial had been taking place since July 6 . |
| 4 | The chairman had been introducing people for an eternity , and still no sign of him . |
| 5 | The Dragonslayer had been receiving signals from the unnamed planet . |
| 6 | Politicians and political parties for some months prior to the announcement of the date of the election had been making their arrangements for manifestoes and candidates . |
| 7 | It is believed that the gang had been watching the property from a nearby field . |
| 8 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 9 | Maggie remembered how the building had been rocking on its foundations . |
| 10 | I had a little snigger ; it had to be fully ten minutes since the last stroke of eleven , and the thunder had been murmuring dark warnings ever since . |
| 11 | And of course he knew as well that the Admiral had been stirring it . |
| 12 | He had indeed caught on from the bad vibes the driver had been giving out — the nervousness , the pale sweat-beaded face , the rapid eye movement towards the back seat — that something was bothering the guy . |
| 13 | Perhaps the luck had been going our way recently . |
| 14 | She had not been able to work out where the noise had been coming from . |
| 15 | THE CHAMPAGNE had been pouring into Downing Street since dawn , everything from a Nebuchadnezzar of Moet & Chandon to a bottle of Marks & Spencer 's own , but Mr Major touched not a drop . |
| 16 | Although the college had been admitting female students in recent years , its outward appearance still succeeded in impressing the visitor with its austere and indefinably masculine grandeur . |
| 17 | People from outside the college had been coming in freely , causing trouble , stealing and even beating students . |
| 18 | The hammer had been lying in the garden and Youngs had just picked it up . |
| 19 | The defender had been playing with Limerick on a short-term contract . |
| 20 | By a notice of motion dated 14 February 1992 the local authority appealed against those parts of the order which directed that there should be no contact between the father and the girl until after the local authority review and that there should be supervised contact between the girl and her half-sister , on the grounds that ( 1 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to invite the parties to comment on the agreed proposals for contact ; ( 2 ) the justices had been wrong in law in failing to indicate to the parties the nature of the orders for contact which they proposed to make , thereby depriving the parties of the opportunity to make submissions relating to those proposals ; ( 3 ) the justices had wrongly exercised their discretion in authorising the local authority to refuse contact to the girl by the father for only six months when they had found as a fact , inter alia , that the father had abused the girl over a period of at least 18 months ; ( 4 ) the justices had been wrong to impose the condition of supervision on contact between the girl and her half-sister when there had been no application for such contact to be supervised , the evidence was that the half-sister had been enjoying unsupervised contact and that there was no evidence that there was any risk of the girl coming into contact with her father while having contact with her half-sister , and the justices had heard evidence that the local authority were considering placing the girl with her half-sister and by their order they had precluded the local authority from making such a placement and had fettered the discretion of the local authority ; and ( 5 ) the order was therefore contrary to the girl 's best interests . |
| 21 | The SAAF had been operating Dakotas since June 1943 , with a total of 58 on charge , flying principally from southern Africa to North Africa and then into Italy . |
| 22 | The Pentagon would have been furious at losing an agent as well as a major mission , but there was little or nothing it could say or do to put things right without acknowledging that Coleman was an agent and thereby admitting that , for the better part of two years , the DIA had been spying , not on the country 's official enemies , but on other agencies of the United States government . |
| 23 | Fellatio was particularly common where the assailant had been drinking and was unable to sustain an erection or reach orgasm . |
| 24 | In a report on Hrawi 's tour on June 10 , the ( Phalangist ) Voice of Lebanon radio stated that the President had been seeking Arab support for the implementation of the October 1989 Taif Accord for Lebanese national reconciliation [ see p. 36986 ] . |
| 25 | The mould Penicillium looked interesting , and was available : research workers in the department had been using it , just as Fleming was doing , to prevent the growth of unwanted organisms in bacterial cultures . |
| 26 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 27 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 28 | Again , I do n't know where they got their information from but I confirmed that the DEA had been running controlled deliveries through Cyprus while I was there and that its operations had been wide open from a security point of view . |
| 29 | The wind had been dropping steadily . |
| 30 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |