Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What made this worse was that we ( there were a few of us Leeds fans in my school ) we friends with a west brom fan , and had been taking the piss all year … had nt they recently gone up to div 1 ? |
| 2 | Yet he knew I had been taking the Pill every day . ’ |
| 3 | The priest , with folded hands and closed eyes , recited Grace , and the meal began : soup served by a daughter of the same sister of Rose 's who had been taking the photos ; chicken and ham , with salad . |
| 4 | After a dress rehearsal for a Symphony Hour show , I suggested , as producer , that in the adagio movement of the main symphonic item the violins had been taking the tempo slightly too fast . |
| 5 | In Switzerland , which had 36,000 political asylum requests in 1990 ( and 17 per cent of whose residents were non-nationals ) , the government had been tightening the rules since February 1991 . |
| 6 | Writers , poets and bards had been telling the stories for centuries but it was not until the Victorians that a visual interpretation was recorded and that was essentially romantic and ill-informed . |
| 7 | Sarah had been too ill to defend herself , and besides , in a way Elizabeth Bradford had been telling the truth . |
| 8 | Charles was relieved that the information put her in the clear ; she had been telling the truth . |
| 9 | So perhaps Lesley-Jane had been telling the truth in her description of the relationship . |
| 10 | He knew Phil Jordan 's home number and dialled it , hoping Jordan had been telling the truth about going home . |
| 11 | At the same time , it should not be forgotten that some writers had been advocating the use of multiple methods for years : |
| 12 | Barbarossa 's initial aim was to unify Germany , and settle a number of conflicts which had been weakening the realm . |
| 13 | Benjamin and I had been entertaining the group with a French madrigal , my deep bass a smooth foil to my master 's well-modulated tenor : a stupid little song about a maid who lost her wealth and her virtue in the great city . |
| 14 | It was now three in the afternoon , and the offensive odour had been plaguing the neighbours since 10.30 in the morning . |
| 15 | On Sept. 2 All-India Radio reported that Pakistani forces had been shelling the Punch sector in Jammu and Kashmir since Aug. 26 and that a woman and two children had been killed . |
| 16 | Arthur Hutton , it was reported , was ‘ highly delighted ’ , as he had been planting the hedge as agent for his cousin George , Allison Hutton 's son . |
| 17 | Since mid century , philanthropists and social reformers had been urging the removal of the population of the inner-city slums to the more salubrious outskirts of the city . |
| 18 | Mrs Taylor said she had been urging the Government for months to make public a report by Mr Ponsford confirming the morale problems . |
| 19 | He found he had been speaking the memory out into the night and among the bleak cages around . |
| 20 | He needed to think , because although he was sure that Andrus had been speaking the truth , and that he had not deliberately incited Zoser to kill , he still felt puzzled . |
| 21 | He had been calculating the girl as a mathematical entry in the equation . |
| 22 | Control Data had been mulling the use of other RISCs , notably the Hewlett-Packard Co PA chip , but these machinations were , as the company admitted ( UX No 384 ) , a bluff to bring Silicon Graphics and NEC to the table . |
| 23 | The Fraud Squad had been seeking the help of several journalists for some weeks , as part of its work on the findings of that official report . |
| 24 | However , the results — far from presenting a more ‘ acceptable ’ picture of English housing — bore out everything that housing experts had been warning the government about for the past few years of increasing housing cuts . |
| 25 | For generations prior to this calamity the custodians and promoters of Yahweh — that is , the now canonized Prophets of Israel — had been warning the people that if they did not abandon their syncretistic ways , the wrath of the one true God would descend upon them . |
| 26 | Over 90 per cent of the heroin users at each agency had been using the drug for between one month and five years . |
| 27 | Gauleiter Forster , on the other hand , had been using the threat of Russian communism and Polish nationalism as the basis for the development of the NSDAP . |
| 28 | One of my students had been using the machine and she had n't been knitting tuck , so the tuck brushes had been put out of work . |
| 29 | She was about to ask him why the party had been using the OBEX pool when , as if he could read her thoughts , he said , ‘ I used to take them to the public swimming-pool in town , but it gets so crowded that some of them used to get frightened . |
| 30 | He had been using the 1-iron , even though it was a par-5 , but he was afraid of dropping behind . |