Example sentences of "had [be] [v-ing] at [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 2 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 3 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 4 | The human had been looking at one of those big sheets of paper … |
| 5 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | School had been tiring at first on transfer but she had soon got used to it : originally she had belonged to a number of clubs in the early day ( Thursday ) when all such activities take place , but now preferred to go home early . |
| 8 | One second I had been speeding at fifty miles an hour along a ribbon of uninterrupted concrete ; the next , to the wide-eyed amusement of a group of policemen standing beside a checkpoint , there was a loud crunch , every shock absorber on the Nissan thudded home to its end-stops and I found myself dead in the water by a pothole large enough to accommodate half Balboa 's army . |
| 9 | Mr Campbell said that during the first incident , when Mr Friel and the two younger accused had been shouting at each other in the shopping centre , the lawyer had struck the 15-year-old on the face with the dog leash . |
| 10 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 11 | Direct Line Insurance is Britain 's largest direct insurer and had been running at 100,000 new policies or thereabouts for three years . |
| 12 | Shortly before the February 1992 meeting it had been reported that OPEC production in January had been running at 24,200,000 barrels per day ( bpd ) , about 70,000 bpd above the level in December 1991 and the highest levels since the 25,000,000 bpd recorded in 1980 . |
| 13 | Presumably , after carrying out their assignments , they had been returning at irregular intervals and were now preparing their reports for the final session of the afternoon . |
| 14 | It had been thrilling at first to start work for a real knight and his lady and to live in this tall mansion with its halls and parlours , its tapestries and suits of armour . |
| 15 | Booker had been working at Liberal News and , after receiving a letter from Usborne , whose proto-satirical magazine Mesopotamia at Oxford had centred around Foot , Ingrams , and John Wells , the product hit the streets or rather those streets in South Kensington to which Andrew Osmond , another Oxford contemporary , chose to distribute it . |
| 16 | About 700 men had been working at three pit levels up to 560 metres below the ground , over a 2 sq km area . |
| 17 | Our problem had been landing at all . |
| 18 | Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover . |
| 19 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 20 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |