Example sentences of "had been do [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If colonoscopy had been done the extensive nature of the disease might have been recognised and the patient would have entered the programme . |
| 2 | His tattoo had been done the previous winter by a Chinese man in Harlesden , who specialized in non-fade colours , fluorescents and airbrush fantasy . |
| 3 | It had already been decided that Hayling was to remain as chief executive , and everyone who had been doing a specific job for the company was invited to carry on . |
| 4 | In those days I had been doing a good deal of drawing ; and , having come under Wyndham Lewis 's influence , I took my Vorticist efforts round to the Master , and , to my surprise , I found that he thought quite well of them . |
| 5 | The hospital 's central heating had been doing a fine job of drying everything on me and I felt like one of those old-fashioned clothes-horses , steaming slightly in warm air . |
| 6 | If he knew how old she was he might want her to tell him what she had been doing the last few years . |
| 7 | She further alleged that an older brother had been doing the same . |
| 8 | It had all been going on for years , Chertro said , and apparently earlier technicians had been doing the same for a long time before . |
| 9 | I mean the number 's quite , I said you , you reaffirmed that the number was the same one that had been doing the same thing in , in Wokingham . |