Example sentences of "had [adv] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had merely been playing with her . |
| 32 | The mobile radio truck , belonging to the Mass Communications Organization of Thailand , had apparently been interfering with military radio frequencies , and the armed forces sought the removal from the Cabinet of Police Capt. Chalerm Yubamrung , a Minister attached to the Prime Minister 's Office , when Chalerm publicly criticized the military over the affair . |
| 33 | She was saved from that particular choice by a boy of about seven , who had apparently been playing with his train set in the porch . |
| 34 | Falconer had apparently been playing with the letters of the name , breaking them up , distancing each from the other . |
| 35 | She had apparently been travelling to Godstowe and must therefore have been expected . |
| 36 | The panic buying forced the Moscow city council on May 28 to announce a temporary ban on the sale of food and consumer goods in city shops to anyone unable to produce a Moscow residence permit ( such restrictions had already been operating for many weeks in Leningrad and a number of other cities ) . |
| 37 | Now that he was clear of the hawthorn scent of the hedge and the reek of cattle dung , he became fully aware of what had already been drifting into his nostrils while he was lying among the thorn . |
| 38 | Most of the seven founder members had already been serving in France . |
| 39 | So Trumbull started moving the camera in and out , and stopped the lens down to a tiny aperture for maximum depth of field ( he had already been experimenting with zoom lenses for the cockpit readouts in other sequences ) . |
| 40 | Although the Hervert Laming letter of 13 December 1992 created its own furore about what should be written down , senior managers had already been debating for six months about whether care managers should bluff users and relatives about the money available for them . |
| 41 | During the sixteenth century the Portuguese had already been profiting from the gold being produced in West Africa and Japan . |
| 42 | Brook , small , breezy and soft-spoken had already been padding among the assembly , shaking hands with a grip curiously flabby for one whose theatrical identity is so startlingly defined . |
| 43 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |
| 44 | To some degree they had already been catering for children with special needs . |
| 45 | One new research interest had already been developing in the mid-seventies from my earlier work in semantics . |
| 46 | As a result , Kandel began to make the sort of experiments that those working on the biochemistry of memory had already been struggling with ; adding radioactive precursors of protein to isolated ganglia or to cells in a dish , trying to identify the protein products , and to distinguish those made uniquely or in raised quantities during memory formation from the many others . |
| 47 | What decided her in the end was that the new job specification covered much of the work she had already been doing at Stoy 's for C&R and she was loth to let it go . |
| 48 | Pitmen in Northumberland and Durham were working six or seven hours in 1765 but seem to have been working at least eight by the end of the century , as Whitehaven 's colliers had already been doing in 1765 . |
| 49 | The Wall Street crash of 1929 was severe enough , by itself , to reduce wealth in the American economy substantially , and thus to cut personal and business spending ( which had already been falling for two months ) . |
| 50 | By the time human beings first came into being , several million years ago , life had already been evolving for three and a half billion years . |
| 51 | Spare Rib — the UK 's first feminist magazine — had already been going for five years . |
| 52 | The station was overflowing with badly wounded who had already been waiting for treatment for several days . |
| 53 | Rachel , who had already been battling with unpredictable sensations brought on by the close proximity of David clad only in his brief black swimming-trunks , felt her cheeks flame and could n't bring herself to look at him . |
| 54 | By the time that came along I had already been playing for some time . |
| 55 | Rumours had already been circulating for some time in the movie world that Madonna , whose big new movie will be Body Of Evidence , was discussing a new film with Sr Almodovar . |
| 56 | Herman , whom Erika had already been keeping at a safe distance from her feet , backed away . |
| 57 | No-one told him that BCR trains had already been working into Craven Arms for more than a fortnight . |
| 58 | The UKAEA had already been working on two prototypes — a high temperature successor to the AGR ( called the Dragon ) and the Steam Generating Heavy Water Reactor , another uniquely British concept . |
| 59 | An agricultural relief committee was established in 1983 by a handful of young agricultural engineers , some of whom had already been working with ‘ the voluntary work committees ’ , a network of skilled and unskilled workers which had been operating since the mid-1970s . |
| 60 | Anne , having moved away from Elizabeth Woodville and her family , had meanwhile been conversing in low tones with Joan . |