Example sentences of "it had [been] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 . |
| 2 | The US concession to cease production was a major factor , since it had been developing new binary systems but had not produced enough to replace the existing 25,000 tonnes of stocks . |
| 3 | It had been raining all night and in the stillness of morning the clouds and mist had not yet cleared . |
| 4 | It had been raining all day and by the time I got to the inn I looked like a pink sponge in a cagoule . |
| 5 | The weather was fine on the day , a lucky day as it had been raining all week . |
| 6 | It had been raining that night so the roads were slippy and our group was half way round the course when a friend , Catriona , suffered a puncture in her rear wheel . |
| 7 | When this eagerly awaited party actually happened , it had been going forty minutes before Dad and I realized that we knew virtually no one there . |
| 8 | It had been lying empty for months , he said . |
| 9 | It had been lying idle since a Saturday afternoon in October , with begonia tubers in its grass-box and a bundle of yellowing newspapers balanced on its engine . |