Example sentences of "had been [verb] and [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This scheme , which was the first which opened up the riverside in Leeds , an area which up to this time had been ignored and declining for 100 years , led the way for the mass of development which has since followed . |
| 2 | While the CNAA had been debating and arriving at a new policy statement , a considerable diversity of approaches had developed in the institutions . |
| 3 | The defendant had been told by the police to leave the scene outside a party where he had been swearing and shouting , which he grudgingly did , continuing to use foul language . |
| 4 | … once the CNAA even began to lend its support to this development , there literally was a kind of explosion , and plainly institutions had been looking and waiting for validation in this field … |
| 5 | Then , as she was about halfway along the trees of Wardle Wood , the storm , which had been rumbling and threatening all the way , burst . |
| 6 | ‘ To heaven , of course , ’ said Dotty tartly , seizing an enormous wooden spoon and advancing upon an iron saucepan which had been rumbling and grumbling to itself throughout the conversation . |
| 7 | But yesterday McLean said it was Burgess who had been kicking and stamping on the victim . |
| 8 | After they had been searching and moving on quietly for some time , they reached a place from which they could see that the field below them broadened out . |
| 9 | He beat her easily at chess the following week , but when he came again she had been thinking and remembering . |
| 10 | By a coincidence the letter had been waiting for her on her dressing-table when she had got in from the pictures the previous night , just after she had been thinking and talking of Hilda . |
| 11 | ‘ A few seconds earlier the girls had been skipping and laughing . ’ |
| 12 | One Tuesday Janice noticed that Peter had been pushing and shoving Laura during singing . |
| 13 | It was what she had been hoping and longing for but there was no surge of delight , only a strong but strangely detached sense of relief that the worst of his ordeal was over . |
| 14 | Defence counsel Robert Anthony said McCormack of Meeks Road , Falkirk , had been drinking and larking about with two other men . |
| 15 | It looked like someone had been drinking and eating bread , ’ said Rojas . |
| 16 | He opted for the latter and at the end of 1989 he launched his debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ which sold very well , got a lot of radio play , and , most important of all , it introduced the songs he had been composing and singing at concerts to a wider public . |
| 17 | Bicker was there , looking as tired as if he and not they had been riding and fighting in the past three days . |
| 18 | He had been promoting and popularising science for over 20 years . |
| 19 | It probably dates from after 1864 when Henry Pease turned his attention to the gardens of the mansion he had been enlarging and improving since 1846 . |
| 20 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
| 21 | So he took it , and played something soft and sad , something plaintive and melancholy that rose up every third line as if it was going to shake off its sorrow and fly forward and free ; but then in the fourth it curled back on itself and fell again : reluctantly , sometimes , but always resignedly , as if it knew it was going to fall ; as if it had been striving and falling back again for hundreds of years . |
| 22 | For years , I had been reading and re-reading his novels , ever since I had come across Prester John at my prep school . |
| 23 | A thin , stoop-shouldered Frenchman wearing a pince-nez who had been watching and listening from the curbside , stepped into the road suddenly and leaned close enough to Chuck for the American boy to smell the garlic on his breath . |
| 24 | As Coleman had feared , while the DEA and the Swiss police had been watching and collecting evidence , KGB-trained agents of the Mogamarat , commanded by al-Kassar 's brother-in-law , General Ali Dubah , had been watching them . |
| 25 | Not that dissimilar from the other meter considering I had been swapping and mixing the two tank 's water . |
| 26 | A late arrival came out between the automatic doors , stared at the queue , walked back inside to join the uniformed chauffeur who had been waiting and holding a card . |
| 27 | He had been following and watching our friends . |
| 28 | The rain , which had been coming and going , began to pour down again , spattering in big gobs all over the glass around them . |
| 29 | In a report on Feb. 14 the New York-based human rights group Helsinki Watch called on Tudjman to investigate and bring to an end serious human rights violations in Croatia , where it claimed that the new government had been executing and torturing detainees and unarmed citizens and destroying property . |
| 30 | Eachuinn Odhar had been busy with Father Patrick , dictating letters to all parts ; the Abbot of Iona ; the king 's court in Edinburgh ; even Archibald Campbell , Earl of Argyll , at Inveraray ; messages had been going and coming in almost daily by boat and weary runner . |