Example sentences of "had [adv] been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 2 | Rumour has it that The High had all been living separate musical lives — Andy in particular having just split with the Stone Roses — when they met in Manchester 's Hacienda club , and decided to put a new band together … |
| 3 | The hon. Member for Stockton , North said that , when he had only been going two minutes , Richard Holt was already on his feet challenging him . |
| 4 | By 1920 the government had already been giving public support to 7,667,769 children in need . |
| 5 | In the 1940s an interest in genetic studies came to the fore , although several German investigators had already been following this line for some years . |
| 6 | The night she got pregnant she had already been feeling depressed , and afterwards she immediately regretted what had happened . |
| 7 | Then Pike , or Pike 's body anyway , fiopped all over Quigley as if the two of them had just been exchanging bodily fiuids . |
| 8 | I had always been singing energetic music from the time I was just a little girl , and when I started getting songs like Sweet Nothings , I loved those songs , and I wanted to sing them . |
| 9 | But that was less surprising than that somebody had still been issuing such certificates in the chaos that had been Germany , just three weeks before the final surrender . |
| 10 | Furthermore , the consolidation of Bernician domination of the northern Britons had probably been proceeding unhindered . |
| 11 | While putting these changes in place , the BBC had also been developing local radio . |
| 12 | Concern was heightened by the knowledge that , since the late 1970s , the North Koreans had also been developing ballistic missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads . |
| 13 | In its less dogmatic and more amateur way the ILP had also been giving serious consideration to the United Front . |
| 14 | Serb forces had also been pounding Croatian positions between Zadar and Biograd. — Reuter |
| 15 | He had clearly been sobbing fit to burst , but he was now past that . |
| 16 | One of his crosses was Perdita Macleod , who had now been working full time for Ricky for nine months and felt she knew everything . |
| 17 | The ultimate answer used to be a move to the former East Germany , where some would-be subscribers had reportedly been waiting 23 years to have a telephone installed . |
| 18 | IBM had indeed been making OSI product announcements since summer 1985 , as had its rivals , notably DEC . |
| 19 | The American military had indeed been giving some some tentative thought to the use of atomic weapons in response to the Chinese victories in Korea . |
| 20 | It was a ‘ sad indictment ’ that some reporting accountants had evidently been issuing unqualified reports in circumstances subsequently giving rise to claims on the fund . |
| 21 | She had recently been knitting double jacquard , but when she got to the very top of a sleeve , she had a little disaster and dropped the lot ! |
| 22 | Billy had certainly been making some enquiries but he had been misinformed , Danny thought . |
| 23 | If so , he had certainly been working later than usual . |