Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] over the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so . |
| 2 | On the seminary hill a strange edifice had been constructing over the last previous months . |
| 3 | There were few customers and the landlady had been leaning over the bar reading the Daily Mirror . |
| 4 | For it had been on a cold Sunday evening in the spring , after he had been looking over the house with the idea of buying it , that he had happened out of curiosity to ‘ pop in ’ , as fashionable Anglo-Catholics said , to Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St Basil 's at the end of the road . |
| 5 | In any case , if Parson Woodforde 's manservant Ben Leggatt found himself temporarily ‘ out of pocket ’ , all he had to do was to pawn the best pair of trousers he had been wearing over the weekend and redeem them in time for church on Sunday . |
| 6 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 7 | On the other hand no one else did the work I had been doing over the past year . |
| 8 | ‘ When the police told me everything I had been doing over the last month it totally freaked me out . ’ |
| 9 | A man had been walking over the ground outside . |
| 10 | The non-intervention policy with regard to ‘ lame ducks ’ was effectively abandoned with the politically inescapable rescue of Rolls Royce and Upper Clyde Shipbuilders , and the 1972 Industry Bill marked a return to the kind of industrial policy which had been evolving over the 1960s with the formation of NEDC and IRC . |
| 11 | Am hour later the Emperor 's coach passed the corpse , disturbing the flies which had been crawling over the dead Lieutenant 's face and laying their eggs in his blood-filled mouth and nostrils . |
| 12 | He was clad in the same white coveralls as the half-dozen policemen who had been working over the room , like a coven of wraiths . |
| 13 | They were standing by the desk in the library , where Theda had been going over the household accounts when the lawyer arrived , Hector , his wound still troublesome , laying at her feet . |