Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A Planning Committee had been meeting weekly in 1969 , but the College had not wanted to be too rigid in imposing teaching methods . |
| 2 | It was again as if she had been struck , her hands barely moving along the surface of the dresser she had been wiping clean of dust , her head going low , and when she finished she went to put the damp cloth carefully beside the sink , moving a simmering saucepan from the hotplate . |
| 3 | The present rendezvous had been riding high on my chart of dreads . |
| 4 | Richard used a new toothbrush which Martin had been saving fresh from the cellophane . |
| 5 | We discovered later that a crowd of drop-outs had been living rough on the Towers , using local fishing boats to ferry them to and fro . |
| 6 | Cleveland teenager Carrie Gallagher , 13 , who caused concern when she was reported missing from her home in Declarden Road , Pallister Park , Middlesbrough , had been staying overnight with a friend . |
| 7 | Besides , he could just imagine Cashman 's fury if he discovered that Cindy had been staying unchaperoned with Matthew . |
| 8 | The Sons had been running short of funds . |
| 9 | It was alleged the car had been doing 50-60mph on the wrong side of the road . |
| 10 | I heard myself saying the line that had been waiting ready for months : ‘ I think the time has come when you must go in . ’ |
| 11 | No one could say how long the elderly woman had been lying lifeless in her home , but the authorities told reporters she had apparently not responded to calls since before Hallowe'en . |
| 12 | It had been lying empty for months , he said . |
| 13 | The springer which had been lying buttered on the floor midway between the two slewed an eye in the direction of Vanessa Dersingham when she spoke . |
| 14 | Re-rigging the ship for an Antarctic voyage inside of a week , after she had been lying idle for over a year , was quite impossible . |
| 15 | It had been lying idle since a Saturday afternoon in October , with begonia tubers in its grass-box and a bundle of yellowing newspapers balanced on its engine . |
| 16 | Claws braced on the wall beneath it , the thing strained upwards , rolling its dripping head in agony — and something that had been lying tight beneath it on the pavement slid from under its ravaged body and into the basement . |
| 17 | The shop had been standing empty for some time , and needed a great deal of work . |
| 18 | Spraying conventional crops with fungicides costs US$750 a hectare a year and is a hazard to the health of plantation workers and the environment ; there is also evidence that black sigatoka had been becoming resistant to the chemicals . |
| 19 | The officers believe Elizabeth and Julie had been sunbathing naked on the remote beach , confident they would not be seen . |
| 20 | She had been sitting still in her seat . |
| 21 | One family tea-time , when Auntie had been sitting silent for some time , she said : " It 's lucky there 's never anyone left in those offices at night . " |
| 22 | Then a stranger , who had been sitting unseen round the corner , came up to them . |
| 23 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |
| 24 | A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning . |
| 25 | He had been feeling cold for some time . |
| 26 | It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself . |
| 27 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |