Example sentences of "this [noun sg] had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | In the course of our investigation it turned out that this character had been lying low , wanted by Bristol CID on fraud charges . ’ |
| 3 | This row , this argument had been brewing all season long . |
| 4 | This hip had been paining me at times again , but while we were in Wales it decided to play up properly . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This brother had been working in Derby for some considerable time . |
| 9 | This magic had been happening while they had been closeted with the policeman discussing the prosaic and sordid details of the burglary . |
| 10 | Now this house had been standing empty when I came in it , for twelve months . |