Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A sixteen-year-old girl ( they 're always sixteen in this story ) who had been having regular sex with her boyfriend , began worrying that he might lose interest in her if he had to keep wearing a condom . |
| 32 | They had been having sexual intercourse about three times a day , every day , for the last six weeks , but Maisie still maintained that Robert was faking it . |
| 33 | He was not , in fact , the first to work with the Longhorns : a blacksmith named Welby living on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire had been attempting systematic improvement of the type using animals from the Derbyshire herd of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow House , Burton-on-Trent ( a herd which by 1720 was already uniform and impressively well matched for shape and colour ) , and a Mr Webster of Canley , near Coventry , bred animals from the same herd with stock from Westmorland and Lancashire . |
| 34 | Chebrikov was particularly scathing about the ‘ informal groups ’ that had been attracting public attention , warning that ‘ extremist elements ’ had worked their way into the leaderships of some of them and that they were encouraging them to engage in actions ‘ objectively against the interests of our society ’ . |
| 35 | Some time later , when they were walking back and approaching her apartment block , Luke touched her elbow lightly , startling her , since he had been avoiding physical contact with her all day . |
| 36 | The Midlands ' plants had been putting great pressure on the Merseysiders to call off the strike , as a result of which a mass meeting at Pier Head , Liverpool , had been demanded to vote on the question of a return to work . |
| 37 | For more than a year Alexander , at the French King 's request , had been putting discreet pressure on Henry either to return Alice to her father or marry her to Richard . |
| 38 | She had been working full time in a local factory for the past 8 years and usually enjoyed good relationships with her friends . |
| 39 | This comment is from a daughter who had been giving substantial care to her mother , and explained the situation thus , |
| 40 | The minister had been giving pastoral counselling to a youth with a disturbed relationship to his parents , particularly his mother . |
| 41 | The British Eighth Army 's V Corps , where he was a staff officer , had been giving top priority to Operation Beehive , preparing a strategy to fight the Yugoslavs if necessary . |
| 42 | They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun . |
| 43 | News broke that Steven Jones , a physicist at Brigham Young University ( BYU ) — 30 miles from Salt Lake City and rival of the University of Utah — and a team from BYU had been studying cold fusion for years independently of Fleischmann and Pons . |
| 44 | Miaco were a well-known operator of DC-3s and other types out of the Island and had been overhauling radial piston engines as another facet of their business for over twenty years . |