Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm which would give you some contact with erm , er you know people who 'd er er just come out of prison or , or you know had been serving some sort of sentence or other , you know , maybe not a custodial one or something . |
| 2 | It is understood that the deal had been held up by the Bank of England which had been seeking some form of ‘ comfort ’ from Bank of Edinburgh 's largest minority shareholder , Scottish Amicable , with 39.2 per cent , effectively asking it to stand behind depositors and take a more active role . |
| 3 | It would have been much better if they had been getting some therapy to help them understand why they needed to take drugs in the first place . |
| 4 | Glass had been earning some money by transcribing Ravi Shankar 's score for the film , Chappacqua . |
| 5 | It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled . |
| 6 | It had been expecting some trouble on May 23th , the anniversary of China 's annexation of Tibet in 1951 . |
| 7 | I had been forming some plans , which included writing a book on modern philosophy . |
| 8 | Over the eighteenth century higher London wages had been driving some manufactures into the country . |
| 9 | ‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders . |
| 10 | We also discussed with GEC Avionics the possibility of providing their diagnostic information in a compatible , electronic format as they had been doing some work in the same area . |
| 11 | Mala , who had been doing some thinking of her own , looked at me uneasily . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , George O'Dowd , the former Blitz cloakroom attendant , had been making some progress of his own towards the altar of fame . |
| 13 | I had been following some seals in bright sunshine , stripped to the waist and taking photographs . |
| 14 | Although he was chary of broaching the subject of a full-time shepherd , when he did so , he found that his father had been giving some thought to the matter . |
| 15 | As ruler of Aquitaine Henry felt that it was his duty to impose a settlement , but in recent years Louis VII had been showing some interest in this region , which lay on the route between Paris and Toulouse . |
| 16 | It was only a good six minutes later that this squadron of battleships , which had been steaming some 8km/5mls behind Beatty in his flagship Lion , turned ; this delay left the squadron about 16km/10mls behind Beatty 's battlecruisers . |