Example sentences of "had [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This change was marked by the arrival on 1 June of Air Commodore Hugh Pughe Lloyd , M.C. , D.F.C. , to take over as A.O.C. from A.V.M. Maynard , A.F.C. Newly-promoted from the rank of Group Captain , Lloyd had been serving as Senior Air Staff Officer with No.2 Group of Bomber Command . |
| 2 | Alexei had been listening for other footsteps coming along the bridge . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The conversation had been unsettling in other ways . |
| 5 | James Ousley , chief executive officer of the Control Data Systems Inc spin-out , says its former parent , Control Data Corp — now divided into two separate companies ( UX No 387 ) — had been looking for additional capital for a number of years , but was not able to tempt any investors to bankroll an organisation with interests as diverse as proprietary mainframes , Unix , military and government software and services and a lottery business . |
| 6 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 7 | I tried to look pleased when she told me that Prentice had been ringing at half-hourly intervals since mid-afternoon and had left a multiple-choice list of numbers where I could get him that evening . |
| 8 | Andronikos had been digging in northern Greece for some 25 years when he discovered a vault in one of the narrow streets in the village of Virghina , west of Salonika . |
| 9 | She had been moving in large ellipses , crossing and recrossing her path in a complicated pattern . |
| 10 | A mere two days before she had been deliberating with other world leaders at the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe . |
| 11 | The biggest problem and disappointment was that the international rig count continued downwards and that was where we had been hoping for increased sales and increased market share looking into this year and into the last part of last year . |
| 12 | They had been queueing since early morning in front of the larger shops and the department stores in Sauchiehall Street , Renfield Street and Argyle Street to buy blackout cloth . |
| 13 | With hips at 44.5 inches and thighs at 25 inches , it was no wonder Rudolph had been complaining about excess baggage . |
| 14 | There seems little doubt that suspicion and resentment had been festering in Pakistani minds since long before this series began . |
| 15 | Mrs Cohen had been protesting with increasing frequency as day overtook day with no news . |
| 16 | One hundred years ago this month a distinguished group of chemists met in Geneva to resolve a crisis that had been developing in organic chemistry . |
| 17 | The vessel Yeremi had been riding in scant tens of seconds earlier erupted , disintegrated . |
| 18 | In May 1945 Yugoslav partisans had been spreading through Allied-occupied Austria , trying to annexe much of it to their own country . |
| 19 | Throughout 1838 , Darwin had been allowing for Lyellian competitive defeats to extinguish some species before their predetermined ageing overcame them . |
| 20 | Molotov concluded the parallel negotiations which he had been conducting with German representatives and thus secured two years grace while partitioning Poland with Nazi Germany . |
| 21 | She looked back over her three years at college , now slowly approaching their close , and she thought of all the people she had known and all the friends she had made , and it seemed to her that most of them had been aiming with varying degrees of accuracy at just such an effect . |
| 22 | To support his family , which had been living in grinding poverty in a squalid tenement , he had to emigrate in 1903 to the USA . |
| 23 | Some of the refugees had been living in Polish exile for as long as seven weeks , while others arrived only a few hours before West German diplomats announced they could leave . |
| 24 | It was wild and erratic , as though she had been writing under severe emotional strain . |
| 25 | It dealt with something about which I had been writing to Social Security Ministers for about six months — abuse of the benefit-in-kind regulations , whereby highly paid people were paying themselves in gilt unit trusts . |
| 26 | The blinding headaches he had been experiencing in recent weeks were taking their toll , and he looked grey and drawn when he arrived home . |
| 27 | The critically-ill youngster had been staying with various people after walking out of home following rows with her stepfather John . |
| 28 | Griffiths , of Thurlby Road , Redcar , who had been staying in Kentish Town , admitted criminally damaging the telephone booth . |
| 29 | The nucleus of the new squadron was provided mainly by ‘ C ’ Flight of 261 Squadron , the unit 's ground component being provided by the latter unit and by 1430 Flight , an army co-operation unit which had been operating in Italian East Africa until the previous month , when the main campaign there had been satisfactorily completed . |
| 30 | All performed creditably and indeed Patel was such a revelation that onlookers must have wondered why he had been languishing in other teams for so much of the season . |