Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] on [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he had been talking like an estate agent , getting his full value out of the situation , the full embarrassment of it had been dawning on Jenna . |
| 2 | Claus Toksvig , then a Danish broadcaster based in London , had been reporting on unemployment in Britain . |
| 3 | James Curran , the left-wing media intellectual who had been advising on market research , leaked his involvement to Tribune , the established semi-official paper of the traditional Labour left . |
| 4 | A few years ago , I heard of a consultant surgeon who had been drinking on duty for 20 years . |
| 5 | And the wives had been living on credit to the grocer in the village . |
| 6 | Imagine you had been living on bread and water for three years and then someone put a large bowl of cherries on the table in front of you . |
| 7 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 8 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 9 | It was clear that Thomas Grenfell had made more than his share of mistakes , it seemed that The Fine Leather Trading Company had been overspending on labour and without the expected turnover in goods moved and sold . |
| 10 | His eyes had been feeding on darkness and projections for too long , and now , presented with solid reality , they were befuddled . |
| 11 | The two drivers were later charged with dangerous driving , but it was widely suspected that they had been acting on orders . |
| 12 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
| 13 | She had been waiting on Dreadnought to watch the water coming in through the main leak . |
| 14 | Everyone had been waiting on tenterhooks on the platform , as they had been technically ready for more than a day . |
| 15 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |
| 16 | All these trees had been growing on peat do you see , and the peat was dry . |
| 17 | If they had been working on fruit trees they 'd come in much higher . |
| 18 | A couple of scientists had been working on Edgeøya for most of the summer , and this young bear had appeared near the old trapper 's hut they were staying in ( which was near the beach where we had landed ) . |
| 19 | I think , because I had been working on Armchair Theatre , I was used to a certain style of drama , so when I saw the first Doctor Who script my first reaction was , after the first half hour , all we were left with was a lot of hairy-chested cavemen jumping around , grunting and going ‘ Ug ’ . |
| 20 | Mr Eaton and colleague Ron Siddle had been working on sea fasteners , fixed to the barge to stop the module moving . |
| 21 | A zoologist by training , he had been working on specimens collected by the Challenger Expedition . |
| 22 | Cos me and my brother had been working on wagon again . |
| 23 | A man in a dark suit across the aisle had been working on business papers since New York . |
| 24 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 25 | We had been working on ideas of time and speed . |
| 26 | The cast and crew of The Viking had been filming on location and , finding herself for once with little to do , she 'd taken a break to watch the great Dane Jacobsen in action . |
| 27 | The worst moment , apart from his father 's collapse while being helped to the toilet , had been going on stage on the night of his death , and hearing Lydia Dorinskaya say , ‘ All that lives must die , /Passing through Nature to eternity . ’ |
| 28 | The ash which had been falling on St Pierre since the beginning of May 1902 continued to accumulate , sifting down softly to cover the ruins of St Pierre in a grey pall and burying many of the bodies that still lay in the debris . |
| 29 | On the evidence before the learned judge , it was plain that Wickes had been trading on Sundays and intended to continue doing so in the future unless restrained by the court ; and it was common ground between the parties that Wickes ' Sunday trading was in breach of section 47 unless that section had been rendered ineffective by article 30 of the Treaty . |
| 30 | Clearly Leopold had been interceding on Wolfgang 's behalf , in the hope of getting him home and back under his jurisdiction as soon as possible . |