Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] at [det] " 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 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Our problem had been landing at all . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If she had been tingling at all , it had been from fury . |