Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the two he had talked to on the previous search , the ones who had been taking such pains with the dovecot . |
| 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 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Sir Stafford had been searching all night and finally came so close that he heard the child crying : |
| 10 | A YORKSHIRE terrier saved a dying pensioner after police tracker dogs had been searching all night . |
| 11 | Burn had been ploughing that May afternoon and was leading his horses back to the field after his tea . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A STABLE lad who had been drinking all day took a colleague 's car and smashed it through a wall . |
| 18 | Work colleague Melvyn Robinson of Bouch Street , Shildon , said he believed Mr Hughes had been drinking all afternoon . |
| 19 | He had been drinking all night long , beer and whisky . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was dusk , it was wet , and Nicholas had been riding all day . |
| 22 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Glass had been earning some money by transcribing Ravi Shankar 's score for the film , Chappacqua . |
| 25 | She had been imagining this meeting for some time . |
| 26 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 27 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 28 | If I had been fishing that section of the drain from the other bank , as I usually do , that would have been one of the swims where I would have expected to get a run or two . |
| 29 | Earl Grey was so English , so sedate , and maybe Ilsa had been living that way for fifty years . |
| 30 | She would walk the ten-mile round trip over the Downs to Charleston without demur , striding out in an afternoon , often rapt in thought , puzzling over the next scene in the novel she had been writing all morning . |