Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The West Germans had been using this technique to stimulate postwar rebuilding since the 1950s , and the Department of the Environment clearly saw some parallels . |
| 2 | For she had been wearing this dress the night she had first glimpsed the truth about her sister , a truth that was as unpalatable now as it had been then . |
| 3 | I suppose , poor woman , she had been repeating this phrase for days on end to hundreds of us on our way out , and she would obviously have preferred us all to disappear down a big hole and relieve her of the tedium of wearing out her voice . |
| 4 | She had been imagining this meeting for some time . |
| 5 | IF I HAD been writing this chapter twenty years ago , I would have headed it Wester Ross or Ross-shire without hesitation , and still prefer to do so despite the absorption of the area into the new county of Highland Region in I 974 . |
| 6 | I had been expecting this news for some time but it still came as a terrible shock . |
| 7 | He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say . |
| 8 | Following upon the decrees of the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215 , a whole succession of English bishops had been publishing this legislation and adding to it their own diocesan statutes ; Pecham himself in 1281 drew upon the legislation of two archbishops — Langton ( 1222 ) and Boniface ( 1261 ) — and two papal legates — Otto ( 1237 ) and Ottobuono ( 1268 ) . |
| 9 | Ludens , who had been watching this face attentively for some time , could now however read in it signs of care , a wrinkling of the brow , not marked exactly in any lines of flesh but as a cloud poised , the mouth and eyes narrowing as in thought or pain , the hints of a perhaps imminent older face . |
| 10 | The team , five of them , had been watching this farmhouse for two months . |
| 11 | Seaside entrepreneurs had been feeding this appetite , building this market , for several generations already . |
| 12 | Violet Mapping had been running this massage parlour for five years . |
| 13 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route everyday for the last ten years . |
| 14 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |
| 15 | For four years I had been planning this journey , and the thought of exploring Aussa and discovering what happened to the Awash had seldom been out of my mind . |