Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] [prep] these " in BNC.
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| 1 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 2 | It had never occurred to her that Christopher had been thinking of these things too . |
| 3 | And in the 1930s he had been unforgiving towards these friends of his youth . |
| 4 | Carey continued : ‘ I doubt if He would have been impressed by the argument that the goats had been waiting for these things to trickle down as a by-product of economic growth . ’ |
| 5 | But she had been battling against these odds for five hours , so perhaps her judgement was a little warped . |
| 6 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |