Example sentences of "had [adv] been [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said he had thought they had all been fighting on the German side because they had all been under a German commander when surrendering . |
| 2 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 3 | The UKAEA had already been working on two prototypes — a high temperature successor to the AGR ( called the Dragon ) and the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor , another uniquely British concept . |
| 4 | She had taken off her coat , somehow contrived to make herself seem a little dishevelled , as though the two of them had just been snogging on the sofa or something . |
| 5 | Franca decided that Alison had probably been drinking on the plane and was already a bit tipsy . |
| 6 | At this period in time Highlander had also been working on a community health program , the broad aim of which was ; |
| 7 | From 1973 the Health Protection and Environment Directorates of the European Commission had also been working on measures to control wastes and ‘ trace ’ substances in water : they adopted a 50mg/litre nitrate limit for the 1980 Directive Relating to the Quality of Water Intended for Human Consumption ( 80/778/EEC ) , which also controls pesticides and metals . |
| 8 | I 'd have told Jamie as much , too , if I 'd been able to talk and had n't been concentrating on putting one foot in front of the other . |
| 9 | That striped blouse had n't been lying on top . |
| 10 | They had n't been working on the slate face , they had n't worked any slate , but they were doing all right on the tables , you know on the sawing the slate up for the others . |
| 11 | The affected fish had previously been swimming on its head and it spine had become deformed due to its awkward position . |
| 12 | I had recently been working on Orwell 's radio scripts in the BBC 's Written Archive Centre at Caversham , one of the most important archives for modern British history outside the Public Record Office , and here in this room in Sackville Street were books written by all the authors and broadcasters I had grown familiar with , who were working at the time George Orwell was broadcasting and before . |
| 13 | They had been crossing a scree ; there had been many loose stones , and footing was difficult , but surely at that point they had been traversing a gentler slope , and her employer had actually been standing on a flattish stretch of granite when she had fallen . |