Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] away [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plan was designed to give France the initiative in German affairs which had been slipping away from her . |
| 2 | For years father had been nagging away at him to take some interest and prove he had the Miletti flair , yet as soon as he tried to show a bit of initiative everyone got on their high horse about it , father especially , calling him a worthless junkie and I do n't what else besides . |
| 3 | Devon had been romping away with the section , but by the beginning of August had seen their lead whittled away , with Oxfordshire emerging as a growing and serious threat to their supremacy , 20 points behind but with two matches in hand . |
| 4 | The French , who had been staying away in droves , would also be targeted with a splashy new advertising campaign . |
| 5 | It was not Selden , who had been running away from that hill . |
| 6 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 7 | She had been walking away from him towards the path that led to the gate and she turned her head and said , ‘ Did n't want to disturb you ; you looked so peaceful , asleep . ’ |
| 8 | He was glad of the moon , for he had been walking away from the road and the quarry for a long time and had reached the rising , stony ground at the foot of the foin . |
| 9 | Maybe the Fax machine was in one of the outbuildings , but they were the other side of the yard near the barn and Cawthorne had been walking away from them . |
| 10 | Dave did n't bother to shave until the evenings , and Colin 's shoes had been coming away at the sides for weeks . |
| 11 | Later my surgeon was to tell me that the cancer had been growing away for many years . |
| 12 | The young Robert Zimmerman had changed his name to Bob Dylan and had been wailing away for a couple of years or so , and Nicholson was among the first of his fans who listened to and studied the words of his anti-establishment anthems , ‘ The Times , They Are A-Changin ’ and his ‘ Mr Tambourine Man ’ which was a taunting , haunting song with a very hard edge that white middle-class youth took to be an ode to a dope dealer , which Dylan denied . |
| 13 | All afternoon , Martin had been hammering away in the conservatory . |
| 14 | She had been shrinking away from his anger and distaste , but now she was coming back , a hot fury of her own growing within her . |
| 15 | She placed a cup of coffee in front of him , but Travis was still letting go with everything that had been tearing away at him ever since he had first clapped eyes on Rosemary . |
| 16 | She was between Titron and the assault boat which had been going away from it . |
| 17 | A local man bought the car from 's estate when he died in 1965 for £50 and intended to restore her , but until recently it had been rusting away in his garage . |
| 18 | Voices that had been chattering away at you all your life . |