Example sentences of "they had [be] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The former concept had a crucial historical advantage at the birth of mechanics ; Western thinkers approaching things as materials which stay put until the craftsman or builder reaches for them , would not have started trying to measure how the inert is moved by external forces if they had been thinking in terms of inherently active ch'i . |
| 2 | The two teams arrived in the northern capital from Beijing where they had been competing in the Asian Games . |
| 3 | Furthermore , a settlement arrangement was made whereby the creditor countries could exchange on a monthly basis their accumulations of the weaker currencies ( which they had been buying in the EC exchange markets ) for some other form of reserve asset . |
| 4 | They had been drinking in the local dockyard club in the company of Maddison and his fiancee , Deborah Scott , 29 , and all four had left together . |
| 5 | All three were still dressed in what they had been wearing in the camp : corduroy trousers , khaki shirts and pullovers and big nailed boots . |
| 6 | They had been moving in a group , or trying to : actually , they had straggled widely at times . |
| 7 | A frisson of disbelief and unease passed though the male patrons as the woman they had been watching in simulated copulation on the screen materialised in the flesh before their very eyes . |
| 8 | They had been living in it for years . |
| 9 | They had been living in Athens , and bringing out a magazine , Residue . |
| 10 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 11 | He had told her about the cannabis bed a few days ago when they had been walking in the garden and her eyes had widened in shock . |
| 12 | They had been talking in low voices . |
| 13 | They had been talking in Spanish . |
| 14 | They had been paddling in tension-filled silence for some time when he spoke . |
| 15 | He had been sending in listings , even reports , on the gigs they had been running in Birmingham . |
| 16 | Although this was the exact opposite of what they had been saying in the previous year , it was consistent in suggesting that there was a conflict between leaders and members . |
| 17 | Here is a moment when the danger to the dismasted Hurrying Angel becomes apparent to the exhausted crew as the light grows and they can view the sea they had been fighting in the dark : |
| 18 | In the first year of the new tour , Len Owen , then tournament director for the Benson and Hedges tournament at Wembley , revealed that they were expecting to have to pay $500,000 in appearance money , in addition to the same amount they had been offering in prize money when they were a protected event . |
| 19 | She was worried about a pair of wild barn owls : they had been nesting in her barn for years and she knew there were young up there , but had n't seen the parent birds going in and out for several days . |
| 20 | She was surprised to find that it was still not too late , only lunchtime actually , and she was further surprised when Felipe merely informed the other two that they had been driving in the mountains . |
| 21 | Later that evening they had been sitting in a restaurant and Maggie had looked at Tom and said , her delicate face and long neck almost visibly aquiver with pleasure , |