Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only way this impinged on the message Macmillan had been taking up to the generals in the front-line was that they might now have to prepare even more urgently for military operations to reinforce allied policy . |
| 2 | I tried all the channels from 1 to 40 in case the hijackers had been messing about with the rig in the truck , but still got nothing . |
| 3 | The rest of the breakfasters , who had been gazing on with fascination , returned also to their newspapers , with the exception of Fishbane , on whom Gooseneck now turned . |
| 4 | Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake . |
| 5 | The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus . |
| 6 | I put the phone down , wondering how many people had been listening in on the extensions , and went back into my room . |
| 7 | Since she had been drifting luxuriously into sleep , it took a second for the voice to register , but when it did , it acted like a bucket of ice-cold water flung over her sun-warmed limbs , and she jack-knifed upright , her eyes wide with shock . |
| 8 | Crimean Tatars had been drifting back to their former homeland since 1987 , and a June 1988 central government ruling confirmed their right to residency [ see p. 36036 ] . |
| 9 | And when they had been hiding out in Tom Rooney 's house , they had still fallen into the roles of master and maid , and on board ship Patrick 's attitude , influenced by Tom 's warning , had been stand-offish . |
| 10 | There was the Bishop of Limerick defending the Easter Rising , a man who thirty years before had been speaking out against resistance to civil authority . |
| 11 | The deputy was a Socialist , he had been speaking out against the old work conditions that were being reimposed . |
| 12 | And I already had Jackie because Jackie had been speaking earlier on the tapes . |
| 13 | He had been pointing out of the window and asking me if I liked the weather or the colour of the cows . |
| 14 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 15 | At the time I honestly never gave a thought to why Billy Tuckett had been poncing around on the roof in the wee small hours or why he 'd chosen Sunil 's bathroom to fall through . |
| 16 | Troubles had been piling up in recent months as the owners struggled to restore the house 's reputation . |
| 17 | On the other side of the House , Norman Tebbit and the rest of the rabid Right had been nodding along to Mr Kaufman . |
| 18 | She had been calling out to him , pleading , arms outstretched , ‘ Wait for me . |
| 19 | The expediter — ‘ Joy ’ — was the envoy of a client of mine : the Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines ( CDCP ) , a local company my bank had been courting unsuccessfully for years . |
| 20 | She had glimpsed Emily Grenfell who had been leaning forward in her carriage , staring out into the crowded roadway , her emeralds shining at her throat , the green richness of the stones glittering in the light from the street lamps . |
| 21 | Sarah put the trowel she had been using carefully into her garden basket and removed her garden gloves . |
| 22 | If gaunt-face had been looking up at the Clubroom windows in the hope of seeing Filmer — or of Filmer seeing him — maybe Filmer would come down to talk to him and maybe I could photograph them both together , which might one day prove useful . |
| 23 | Fei Yen had been looking up from beneath her lashes , her pose the very image of demure , obedient womanhood . |
| 24 | We had been looking around for about five minutes or so , when a jeep containing two members of the Guardia Civil ( The National Police ) arrived . |
| 25 | Mr Fitzpatrick had been looking forward for months to the holiday with his son , who attended business meetings in the US capital . |
| 26 | Mr Fitzpatrick had been looking forward for months to a holiday in the States with his son . |
| 27 | He had been looking forward to showing it all to her . |
| 28 | One moment he had been looking forward to a happy and wealthy retirement and now , minutes later , he was a condemned criminal with only a few hours left to live . |
| 29 | He had had a good day at the office and his head had not troubled him ; they seemed pleased with his work ; he had been looking forward to telling her about it over supper , and now this . |
| 30 | Ramsay knew her by repute only and had been looking forward to seeing her in person . |