Example sentences of "have [be] [v-ing] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Whatever secret he had been hoping to confide on that short walk to the House would remain for ever unspoken . |
| 32 | She had been intending to go in five minutes ' time , when she had drunk her cup of weak tea . |
| 33 | The latter I had been intending to read for years and , by happenstance , had come across a cheap edition in a book sale just days before setting out . |
| 34 | Timid winds of change had been trying to blow in Spanish universities since 1951 , when a relatively progressive Minister of Education , Joaquin Ruiz-Giménez , had initiated an attempt to revitalize and open up the torpid and reactionary Spanish education system . |
| 35 | Lindsey sank back into her seat , trying to digest the thought that that was precisely what she had been trying to do from the minute she had met him , and it had n't got her very far . |
| 36 | He had been trying to talk to Sir Alexander Cadogan , the Cabinet 's linkman with the secret services , but had been told that he was busy . |
| 37 | By then she could just about face up to the knowledge she had been trying to resist since February 1944 ; that every last member of her family had died in the concentration camps . |
| 38 | They looked at each other , Jean-Paul focusing his eyes with difficulty , and Edouard saw the coarsening in his brother which he had been trying to ignore for days . |
| 39 | Though , since her denial was hardly any excuse for the way she had been trying to bolt to her room , she felt honour-bound to give him just as straightforward an explanation . |
| 40 | There then appeared a chink of light when we were advised by Mr F. Musgrave of Saintfield that he wished to sell the site of the former Ballynahinch Junction Station , a site which the Trust had been trying to secure for the past 20 years . |
| 41 | Robert recognized faces he had been trying to avoid for weeks . |
| 42 | One of the pink slips was a Returning-Your-Call message from a recently-elected female politician she had been trying to contact for days . |
| 43 | Helen had been trying to learn for some time , but she found it very hard although Tony was endlessly patient with her . |
| 44 | I had been trying to produce in Jimbo the necessary mental awareness that the real cure — the reopening of the nerve pathways — lay in the end with him . |
| 45 | Director Alvin Rakoff had problems with Crawford when it came to a crucial , very dramatic scene that he shared with Donald Pleasence , who was playing the police officer who could see a way to nailing the crook whom he had been trying to get for twenty years through his son . |
| 46 | The AS presumably indicates Andrew Stavanger , and the TMJ will be his secretary , or one of the typing staff And it reads sensibly enough — it is just the sort of letter that he might have been expected to write if he got back to his office late and were told that you had been trying to get in touch with him . |
| 47 | Pc James Crane , one of six officers who had searched for the alleged raiders , said both men had been trying to hide in bushes and ferns . |
| 48 | Covering her impatience , she told him that some keys similar to MacQuillan 's desk keys had been found and Ruby had been trying to divine from them the identity of their owner . |
| 49 | But BitC was an outfit with drive , enthusiasm , and a determination to make the sort of changes in society that Charles had been trying to make for years . |
| 50 | He said that there had been a postal strike and that he had been trying to write to me and as the mail was getting through , I should get the letters . |
| 51 | Hakim had previously acted as the equivalent of a Foreign Minister of the Democratic Arab Saharan Republic ( SADR — which the armed movement Polisario had been struggling to establish in the Western Sahara since 1976 ) . |
| 52 | While she had been speaking , the dogs had been struggling to get through the narrow crack of open door . |
| 53 | Census data , for instance , made clear that an increasing proportion of the more numerous national groups had been choosing to live in their ‘ own ’ union republic , with the greatest increases in Central Asia , the Baltic and Armenia ( Russians , by contrast , had become more dispersed throughout the USSR ) . |
| 54 | The blackleg buses disappeared off the streets and other vehicles which had been beginning to return to the roads . |
| 55 | And then , you see , it halted where it did because there were some petals and fragments from the blackthorn I had been handling fallen into the spine there , shaken out of my sleeve or my hair when I closed the book . |
| 56 | The fan that she had been waving stopped in mid motion and clicked shut . |
| 57 | The crisis Branson had been expecting broke in October , when British Airways dropped the price of their cheapest return ticket on the London-New York route from £278 to £259 — only £1 more than Virgin — and began selling tickets ‘ subject to government confirmation ’ . |
| 58 | I mean it seems a bit ironic in that how that what the Communist Party had been striving to eliminate for the past twenty years , they 're now going back to recreating differences in society , but the most fundamental change is that how feudalism has gone . |
| 59 | And the buzzard , who had been waiting hidden in the branches of- an oak tree , swooped down , picked her up as carefully as if she were made of rose petals , and carried her back to the forest . |
| 60 | Alice 's mother-in-law thought she was going to have an afternoon 's shopping , it was what she liked doing herself , and she believed , without any evidence for this , that Alice had been longing to get to the shops on her own . |