Example sentences of "had been [verb] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 2 | I did not suffer any side effects myself from the new drug but , after I had been taking it for nearly two years , I became pregnant . |
| 3 | Overwhelmed by not having noticed this earlier , by his failure of politeness , observation and helpfulness , all that had been taught him from boyhood up , Richard proceeded at the double onto the Embankment , to escort her on to Lord Jim . |
| 4 | Busily he scribbled in a scratchy copperplate hand that had been taught him by a schoolmistress from the hills of Brecon his thoughts and directives in the margins of the typed sheets . |
| 5 | Investigators belatedly found that the head of the bank , 35-year old Robert Gravier , had been bilking it for millions . |
| 6 | Then came news of more freebies , rumours of worse stories to come , and Tory ministers and MPs realised what some had been telling them for weeks . |
| 7 | The officers had been telling her about this particular woman who was very lonely . |
| 8 | Only ten minutes before , the current owner of the Rose Bowl , the rather oppressively genteel Miss Philimore , had been telling her about the wealthy local businessman who was one of the Rose Bowl 's best customers … |
| 9 | A member of the group mentioned that an uncle of his , a retired coal miner , had been telling him about Highlander , and it was suggested that Highlander might be willing to help in some way . |
| 10 | He commented on how much nicer towards him the family seemed to be , including Michael , who had been telling him about his own problems at work . |
| 11 | The country was beckoning again , and his friend van Rappard had been telling him about Drenthe , a remote moorland region in the north of Holland which was starting to attract artists . |
| 12 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 13 | Claudia wanted to laugh out loud — that was what she had been telling him for days , but under the joy she was aware of fear making itself known . |
| 14 | ROSS STRUDWICK had been telling us for weeks : the London Crusaders can become big-time . |
| 15 | But the overall effect of two minutes in her presence had been to fill him with an all powerful sense of her sex . |
| 16 | Later on in my undergraduate career I was lucky enough to be given some teaching by Dr Douglas Ross , consultant in Glasgow , and had personal experience of the efficacy of homoeopathy when he cured the gingivitis ( inflammation of the gums ) which had been plaguing me for three weeks with a homoeopathic preparation of mercury . |
| 17 | At the end of the recording , the woman who had been showering him with questions observed the following : ‘ I have never done such a difficult interview . |
| 18 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 19 | Sitting in her window , she commanded a good view of the vicarage garden and of the ‘ object ’ whose identity had been puzzling her for some days now . |
| 20 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 21 | It seems , however , always to have been associated by those who employed it with the idea that Britain 's historic policy towards its dependencies had been to lead them along the path towards self-government — a belief which had for its principal inspiration the history of Canada since the Durham report . |
| 22 | Minutes before the poison he had taken took its final effect , a friend broke into the room to tell Stephen that a government maintenance had been granted him of two guineas a week . |
| 23 | Coleman knew them already — they had been to see him at the University of Alabama while planning the trip — and so it was natural enough that he should now take on the chore of shepherding them around the island during their stay . |
| 24 | During his time as Party chairman , many constituency officers had been to see him on a similar errand . |
| 25 | When they met , Burn said that Donaldson had been to see him in the interim . |
| 26 | She always was a bit ‘ igh and mighty for the likes of us , but I did ‘ ear mention that Kitty had been to see her at London University . ’ |
| 27 | Most of the students investigated in this study were non-traditional in that they either possessed qualifications which met the general entrance requirements of the institution but had been gained them in non-traditional ways ( i.e. by other than full time attendance at secondary school ) , or they did not meet the requirement but had other qualifications or evidence of attainment acceptable to the institution in question . |
| 28 | Worse , Riley had been chiding him for not providing a string of exclusive MacQuillan stories but the ones he had written were being held over until they were out of date or appeared elsewhere . |
| 29 | The record company had been lending it to me for the last six months , but they gave it to me at the London gig as a present because Andy MacDonald — the feller who owns the company — was so into the gig ! |
| 30 | A farmer in Didcot had been using them as fence posts . |