Example sentences of "had [be] [v-ing] on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 2 | John Mercer [ q.v. ] persuaded him to contact William Gossage [ q.v. ] , who had been experimenting on similar lines , and in 1859 Hargreaves joined Gossage 's soap works . |
| 3 | It had been running on unheard for some time , in any case . |
| 4 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 5 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |
| 6 | ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons . |
| 7 | Anne had been dwelling on this , even as the queen-dowager , together with the prince , princesses and Joan , waited with a mixture of feelings — hope , doubt , impatience and irritation — for her reply . |
| 8 | She thought guiltily of the money she had been spending on new clothes and of the new slippers she had ordered with the amethyst decoration . |
| 9 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 10 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 11 | His colleague Gwyn Meirion-Jones , had been working on various building types beginning with peasant houses . |
| 12 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 13 | The men had been working on 415 volt switchgear at Caldervale High School . |
| 14 | I think what was different in my approach , and it partly goes back to my background , is that firstly I had been working on educational planning , and that secondly I come from a background of market research . |
| 15 | I was in a French class at school when I picked up a copy of the magazine , which had been lying on one of the tables . |
| 16 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 17 | The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell . |
| 18 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |
| 19 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 20 | If anyone had doubted that the gods had been smiling on British athletics that August week in Stuttgart , the final event must have convinced them . |
| 21 | MI6 , the Secret Intelligence Service ( SIS ) , began life in 1911 under the control of the Foreign Office , which had been spying on other countries for over 400 years . |
| 22 | The inquest heard a team of builders , thought to be travellers , had been preying on elderly people throughout Hampshire . |