Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company had wanted him to transfer to London , in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school . |
| 2 | Claus Toksvig , then a Danish broadcaster based in London , had been reporting on unemployment in Britain . |
| 3 | There had been shelling in Casa Tampica and she had left her hair dye in the Holton Hotel . |
| 4 | The Thing had been listening to radio and television and had found the place the going-straight-up Shuttles went from . |
| 5 | Puzzling — since it seemed that Yorke had been listening to information he 'd specifically asked for . |
| 6 | Women 's Aid and the Domestic Violence Working Group — a body composed of those encountering the results of domestic violence — had been calling for clarification in the law since the decision . |
| 7 | There was no comfort either in Mr Ben Ali 's speech for the other opposition parties which , after their poor results in the elections , had been looking for government help . |
| 8 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 9 | This time his powers of concentration were not helped by the fact that on a hot and humid Sunday afternoon in the Bois de Boulogne he was feeling awful : he had been wasting in order to ride Beaver II at nine stone ten pounds later in the afternoon , and was severely debilitated by a stomach upset which had kept him up all night . |
| 10 | Like hundreds of other child victims of the bloody Yugoslav war , Natasha had been sheltering from gunfire in the Sarajevo orphanage , when Mike found her . |
| 11 | Earlier Rangers had been thinking of survival rather than victory as for the third weekend in a row the Glasgow giants found themselves seriously threatened by a club from the bottom half of the table . |
| 12 | This discrepancy could be explained if North America and Europe had been moving with respect to each other as well as with respect to the magnetic pole . |
| 13 | He had been moving towards resignation since being routed by Mr Smith in the July leadership election . |
| 14 | He had been fading from importance for some time , had been replaced as Unionist leader in the Lords by Curzon and was not a minister under Lloyd George . |
| 15 | Mrs Grandison followed her apprehensively into one of those ubiquitous tea-shops which cater for the multitudes of office workers and others who want a cheap meal at any time of the day , and which , excellent though they are , can hardly be compared with the restaurants Mrs Grandison had been hoping to lunch in . |
| 16 | In a totally uncharacteristic and confused way , she had been hoping against hope that Mrs Bennett would settle down in Hillmarden and come to terms with what she had called ‘ all them dark months ’ . |
| 17 | Er , my experience is slightly different when erm when I had been trying to sort of recover , I did n't , I did n't feel as if I 've get any help from professionals that I approached . |
| 18 | When she had left Madam Lundy 's presence earlier she had been shivering with reaction , but that had now passed , leaving her calm , her options clear . |
| 19 | Many of the farmers were older ( 45–64 years of age ) and had been farming since school days , with attendance at training courses their only form of further education . |
| 20 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 21 | James Curran , the left-wing media intellectual who had been advising on market research , leaked his involvement to Tribune , the established semi-official paper of the traditional Labour left . |
| 22 | Wales also filed a clean bill of health after their stint at the National Stadium yesterday with Mike Hall and Tony Clement , who had been struggling with groin and ankle injuries respectively , satisfying the medics . |
| 23 | Recording a verdict that he killed himself by an overdose Liverpool coroner Roy Barter said : ‘ He had been complaining of anxiety and obviously felt vulnerable before Christmas . ’ |
| 24 | John Cleary , 25 , a computer analyst in Winchester , had been complaining of tiredness , headaches and dizziness for four weeks . |
| 25 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |
| 26 | There is a story that two painters had been drinking until dawn and , on hearing the news of the occupation on the radio , went out and found themselves an inspector of police . |
| 27 | He had been riding in front of Chuck and his father , watching with admiration the erect , narrow-backed figure of Jacques Devraux jogging easily at the head of the column ; the fierce-eyed Frenchman had quickly made a deep impression on Joseph 's fifteen-year-old mind and he was trying to hold his own shoulders high and square in the same fashion . |
| 28 | Earlier this month Bear Stearns , the New York investment bank , distributed 10 million shares that it had been holding as part of a deferred payment plan . |
| 29 | The vote of no confidence was a final humiliation for a government that had been clinging to office . |
| 30 | Even more amazing , Elsie , who had been getting in touch with her previously repudiated strengths , stopped complaining for the day . |