Example sentences of "had [be] [v-ing] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pearce , set to be named as England 's captain for the World Cup qualifying campaign , had been hoping to renegotiate new terms despite signing a five-year contract worth £1m two years ago . |
| 2 | Sir Cyril Taylor , the Government 's adviser on CTCs , who had earlier been successful in persuading Mr Baker to commit more government funds to the 20 schools , had been hoping to get more money for a new round of schools . |
| 3 | In respect of the Yugoslavs , however , we may note that in his draft telegram shown to Kirk , Robertson had been intending to instruct Eighth Army to " turn over to Yugoslav partisans a large number of dissident Yugoslav troops with exception of Chetniks " . |
| 4 | On the debit side we have dropped one day on the calving interval to 376 days , although not a disaster we had been trying to improve that but our heifers are calving at 28 months instead of two years three months . |
| 5 | Wilf Orton , prosecuting , said Hooker , driving at up to 50 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour limit , had been trying to over-take four slower moving vehicles when he hit the other car side on . |
| 6 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 7 | He had been trying to put inorganic chemistry into an intelligible form for his students at the University of St Petersburg , when ( in common with various contemporaries in various countries ) he realized that if the elements are set out in order of increasing atomic weight , they display periodicity : similar elements recur at regular intervals . |
| 8 | Although a number of influential parties had been trying to have New Year 's flay changed from the old style 13th of the month to 1st , the majority of the natives were loath to change and both days were partially observed . |
| 9 | The Coal Board had been trying to introduce new mechanical processes into coal mining in order to increase productivity , but the innovation provoked severe industrial unrest . |
| 10 | Poor had been trying to remove this panel in the control room when we appeared and was surrounded by contractors trying to get in to start redecoration . |
| 11 | After three weeks of intense work and numerous rejected ideas the creative team of copywriter Liz Whiston and art director Dave Shelton felt they had been trying to solve one of humanity 's great challenges . |
| 12 | While everyone else had been trying to solve this problem by heating … to millions of degrees , we had apparently stumbled on the solution involving low temperatures instead . ’ |
| 13 | Then the toilet flushed and we wrenched violently apart , as though each of us had been struggling to get free all along . |
| 14 | The Frasque had been scheming to sponsor civil war in the system , setting world against world . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , if I do , I 've chosen a pretty safe place to do it in , I think , ’ she responded tenderly , exploring the commanding contours of his face with fingers that had been aching to do this for months . |
| 16 | The Location of Offices Bureau , which for many years had been attempting to move commercial development out of London , was given the task of promoting office employment within the cities , including London itself . |
| 17 | Ahead of the opening of a new Supreme Soviet session on Sept. 10 a working group of ministers and experts set up at the end of August had been attempting to synthesise two sets of proposals [ see p. 37663 ] . |
| 18 | They were of special interest to Mr Dalyell as he had been attempting to get more information from ministers about the sinking of the General Belgrano . |
| 19 | DPP ( 1954 ) D , who was sexually impotent , was taunted about his impotence and kicked in the groin by a prostitute with whom he had been attempting to have sexual intercourse , whereupon he lost self-control and killed her . |
| 20 | Alice then , all clean and brushed , and in a nice blouse with the small pink flowers and the neat round collar , walked out of the house and went next door , to No. 45 , as though she had been planning to do this all day . |
| 21 | ‘ And then Crom Croich eats the hearts , ’ said the soldier , and Cathbad , who had been very busy all afternoon supervising the skinning and jointing of an ox and had been planning to serve braised ox heart for tomorrow 's midday meal , turned quite green and tried to remember if they had any salted pig left . |
| 22 | Ashley stopped whatever he had been going to say next with a humourless laugh . |
| 23 | As McLeish had observed to a colleague at the ti me , he 'd have understood the whole performance if the solicitor in question had been going to marry either of them , but there had been no question of that , it was just obfuscation for its own sake . |
| 24 | It was just the sort of set-up that attracted Dustin , who had been itching to have more power over his films for some time . |
| 25 | The little girl was on her own a few yards from the rug where she had been sitting eating some moments before . |
| 26 | A brutal military campaign launched by Iraqi government troops in late March rapidly crushed the Kurdish guerrilla insurgency , which had been threatening to overrun wide areas of northern Iraq in the aftermath of the Iraqi defeat in the Gulf war . |
| 27 | There would always have been a few men who had been dancing barechested all the evening , dancing with the fierce attention of the tango , or the apache ; these were the ones who stayed on late . |
| 28 | He had been hurrying to finish this latest copy before the meal ended , and seeing through the slit that his wife was heading out across the clearing with his two small sons to begin collecting the dishes , he put aside his pencil and hastily read over what he 'd written . |
| 29 | The pleasure she had been feeling turned sour , and she pushed him away . |