Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] [adv prt] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For many years our shore-based rummage crews had been picking up increasing quantities of drugs from routine searches of merchant vessels within the ports , but often these smuggling attempts were " one off " jobs by crew members . |
| 2 | Basically er the broad overall description would be to compensate for the conditions that the tenants had been living in prior to the move . |
| 3 | But it was more than a shock when Julian admitted to Peter that he had been running up huge debts with their bank . |
| 4 | When she had finished , her whole body throbbed , ached , was raw , as if she had been cutting up small pieces of herself . |
| 5 | ‘ Ought we to try to get away ? ’ whispered Snodgrass , whose mind had been going along similar paths . |
| 6 | For several years France had been carrying out nuclear weapons tests on the remote Pacific island of Moruroa in the Pacific . |
| 7 | A UK-based Indonesian human rights campaigning group , Tapol , claimed in its June bulletin that the army had been carrying out public executions of alleged members of the Free Aceh Movement ( FAM ) in northern Sumatra . |
| 8 | Wallace , who had been playing up front with McClair to no devastating effect , moved out to his usual position on the left wing , with similar results . |
| 9 | Walsh , as fund-raising co-ordinator , and Hayling , as ‘ poacher turned gamekeeper ’ ( as Everett described him ) , had been sounding out potential ‘ movement ’ investors for months . |