Example sentences of "two [noun] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The stabbing happened after the two teenagers had been drinking heavily . |
| 2 | Relations with America are on the mend after months in which the two countries had been arguing about the fate of nuclear weapons on Ukrainian soil . |
| 3 | This was prompted by reports that the two governments had been providing logistic support for UNITA — South African Foreign Minister Roelof " Pik " Botha , hitherto a negotiator in the conflict [ see p. 39129 ] , had been declared persona non grata on Nov. 6 , apparently in response to these reports . |
| 4 | It was disclosed on Jan. 19 , 1989 , that FBI agents posing as commodity traders for nearly two years had been accumulating evidence of widespread fraud on the floors of the Chicago Board of Trade and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange . |
| 5 | Individually , the two bands had been doing OK but nothing outrageous . |
| 6 | There is a story that two painters had been drinking until dawn and , on hearing the news of the occupation on the radio , went out and found themselves an inspector of police . |
| 7 | In the evenings after the two painters had been working , they would often stroll towards the café . |
| 8 | Unless they desperately need to believe , like the self-styled ‘ cerealogists ’ who could not accept two jokers had been manufacturing corn circles . |
| 9 | The two cousins had been writing to each other in secret for several weeks , and Cathy had used the milkman as a messenger . |
| 10 | The woods were extensive and the two men had been walking about the property for over an hour . |
| 11 | Ingrid soon discovered from Ilse that the two waitresses had been supplementing their wages by selling sex . |
| 12 | What he had not bargained for was the fact that these two Gardai had been listening to well-articulated feminist rhetoric all afternoon and were still reeling from the effects . |
| 13 | As a result evidence … clearly showed that the two Constables had been idling and gossiping together at a place where one of them had no right to be … [ and ] that the Acting Sergeant , on his round of inspection , met these two Constables together , failed to note in his book , as was required in the regulations , the place where and the time where he met them , and to see that the Constables then noted in their books the time and place of his visit … |