Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] at [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company had wanted him to transfer to London , in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school . |
| 2 | When Tom told his grandmother he was moving out of her house and confessed — because since the accident he had also stopped lying , could not be bothered with prevarication — that he had been busking at stations , she told him she was horrified , she was disappointed in him . |
| 3 | European business development director Peter Scott denied rumours that Pyramid — like its OEM customer Olivetti — had been looking at DEC 's Alpha chip for future developments , but pointed out that much of Pyramid 's SMP technology could be ported to other platforms : it has already licenced its bus and systems software to ICL and Siemens-Nixdorf , and says that further deals will follow . |
| 4 | She had been looking at Mick , but turned slowly and looked at Joe , and smiling slightly said , ‘ Yes ; yes , of course . ’ |
| 5 | Borough councillors heard yesterday that 1992 is Car Crime Prevention Year and officers had been looking at ways of getting the message across . |
| 6 | Since then he had been farming at Mullu , some fifteen miles outside Addis Ababa . |
| 7 | They had been living at Riverstown for two months before the first invitation came . |
| 8 | Nathan had been living at India-May 's for almost three years when Donald moved in . |
| 9 | Joanna had been living at Ashby Chase for many months and the serfs knew her well . |
| 10 | It was a totally inappropriate thing to say , but she was a visitor , and the first since he had been staying at Fern Cottage on his own . |
| 11 | During this time , Liz had taken much of the responsibility for the day-to-day running of the business , while her mother had been staying at home to look after her husband who was in poor health . |
| 12 | Word even came out of Tibet that the Odonata had been assisting at sky-burials , where corpses are left in sacred mountainous places for the attention of scavenger birds . |
| 13 | She met him again by chance on a train , after he had been lecturing at Bromley , and found him strangely excited , laughing like a manic-depressive and unable to sit still in the carriage . |
| 14 | Listening to them , Folly realised that she had never got around to asking Luke what he had been doing at Lexy 's flat the night before . |
| 15 | A Piper Chieftain , belonging to UNACO , had been waiting at Orly Airport to fly them on to Strasbourg . |
| 16 | Citibank 's Art Advisory Services had been bidding at £4.4 million . |
| 17 | On this particular day , they had been shooting at Taos and at the end of it they dropped some acid and took off with two other friends to visit the nearby tomb of D.H . |
| 18 | Cecil explained that Pursuit of Love had been working at home with Desert Sun and the recent Newbury winner Rudimentary . |
| 19 | He had been working at tar Processing and the fumes had given him an unpleasant skin complaint . |
| 20 | Hal and Joy had been working at Applecross Cafe for over 10 years . |
| 21 | Christopher Attwooll , prosecuting , said Joyce had been working at Bowler 's Pub in Eston on the night of the burglary . |
| 22 | Miss Trenholme , 29 , and originally from Failsworth , Manchester , had been working at Pinky 's unbeknown to her family , who thought she was employed as a secretary . |
| 23 | ‘ For the last four summers I had been working at Appel Farm Arts and Music Centre in New Jersey as head of music , ’ Ken explained . |
| 24 | The situation did n't improve much during the rest of the week and for the first time since Rachel had been working at OBEX she found herself not looking forward to going to work in the mornings . |
| 25 | Dai told the story of how one of the visitors , a wealthy industrialist , came into his well stocked shop to use the phone and find out how things had been going at work during his absence . |
| 26 | Earlier , there had been fighting at Mannar on Aug. 1 as the LTTE attacked an advancing troop convoy ; naval artillery was used against rebel positions on Aug. 3 for the first time since the resumption of large-scale fighting on June 11 ; and a major clash took place on Aug. 4-5 , involving the repulsing of an unsuccessful rebel attack against the Jaffna fort . |
| 27 | They had been sitting at home ( unheated , before Anna put in the plumbing and the armchairs ) with cousins and priests coming to black coffee now and then while the prince was out on his horse or at the club . |
| 28 | The 16-year-old victim , who had been browsing at stalls , fell screaming as her attacker tried to escape . |
| 29 | She preached about the passover , a subject they had been studying at Bible camp , and obviously made a good impression . |