Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of these , 44 had been taking delayed release mesalazine as the sole maintenance treatment for at least six months . |
| 2 | Certainly nobody had been taking any notice of this one — but then , had n't he been playing very badly , anyway ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Exactly where we had been swimming that morning . |
| 5 | Weir had been piling one office upon another , and had recently added to his collection that of sheriff-substitute in the Nether-ward of Lanarkshire , although , as his friend Andrew Gardner urgently pointed out to the duke , this was a precarious place which was held only during the pleasure of the sheriff-depute of Lanarkshire . |
| 6 | Because Britain had been producing nuclear power longer than most other countries , this was a particularly acute problem . |
| 7 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |
| 8 | In a report on Hrawi 's tour on June 10 , the ( Phalangist ) Voice of Lebanon radio stated that the President had been seeking Arab support for the implementation of the October 1989 Taif Accord for Lebanese national reconciliation [ see p. 36986 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | A few days before the broadcast I had been counselling one man in his early twenties who would also have issued the same warning . |
| 11 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 12 | The 135 hp engine was used to operating on 80 octane fuel but we had been using 130 octane avgas . |
| 13 | Lutyens had been using classical detail in some form or other since his earliest years as an architect . |
| 14 | The Belgrade-based news agency Tanjug quoted Serb forces as saying Muslims had been using heavy artillery to bombard Serb positions in the Bratunac region of eastern Bosnia . |
| 15 | The West Germans had been using this technique to stimulate postwar rebuilding since the 1950s , and the Department of the Environment clearly saw some parallels . |
| 16 | They told him it was a welcome to Petrograd by the revolutionary workers and sailors : they had been roaring one word " Lenin " . |
| 17 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 18 | A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night . |
| 19 | The inquest heard there were no footpaths and Mr Hughes had been wearing dark clothing . |
| 20 | It was a shirt exactly like the one her singer had been wearing that night , as he swaggered among the women , and whispered ‘ Me quieres ? ’ to them all . |
| 21 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
| 22 | Durrant , such an influence when they overcame Leeds in the previous round , had been struggling all night as the makeshift partner for Mark Hateley , in the absence of the injured Ally McCoist . |
| 23 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 24 | He had been drinking all day with Slatter on 3 April , they had consumed some fourteen or fifteen quarts of ale , they had entered the Chequers , where they had been involved in an argument with two large men he now knew to be Hewett and Charlton . |
| 25 | The pair had been drinking all day and Jones downed more than 10 pints , while Miss Smith , 29 , drank six or seven pints of cider , Nottingham Crown Court was told yesterday . |
| 26 | A STABLE lad who had been drinking all day took a colleague 's car and smashed it through a wall . |
| 27 | Work colleague Melvyn Robinson of Bouch Street , Shildon , said he believed Mr Hughes had been drinking all afternoon . |
| 28 | He had been drinking all night long , beer and whisky . |
| 29 | Then Corporal Auriega , a fat Spaniard who sweated all the time , arrived back from town where he had been drinking all evening with his friends . |
| 30 | It was dusk , it was wet , and Nicholas had been riding all day . |