Example sentences of "they had been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | A frisson of disbelief and unease passed though the male patrons as the woman they had been watching in simulated copulation on the screen materialised in the flesh before their very eyes . |
| 32 | The broad effect of the Act was to enable societies to offer the extended range of services they had been lobbying for . |
| 33 | There they brought the coracle ashore lightly , and drew in , with reluctance and the reverence of finality , what they had been hunting with such assiduity , and so persistently hoped they would not find . |
| 34 | They first told police they had been hunting for foxes . |
| 35 | Abie Klugman had long grown used to the taunt — it was Aronson 's stock joke for all of the ten years they had been lodging with Mrs Neumann , and he no longer minded it . |
| 36 | Of course , compared to what they had been producing with a typewriter and some rub-down lettering , the desktop publishing system was producing wonderful material — it just did n't conform to any of the professional standards . |
| 37 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 38 | MIT members were shown , in detail , the market which they had been trying for years to service . |
| 39 | For months they had been trying with divets and tackle to hoist the appropriate two-ton stone upright and into its hole . |
| 40 | The English had not been acquiring new subjects in the first century and a half of their overseas expansion ; for the next century and a half they acquired new subjects at a rate which would have been quite inconceivable if they had been dealing with men and women who thought about their political rights and obligations in terms of nationalism . |
| 41 | They had been living at Riverstown for two months before the first invitation came . |
| 42 | They had been living in it for years . |
| 43 | They had been living in Athens , and bringing out a magazine , Residue . |
| 44 | It was not known yesterday if the three had returned to Scotland or to the Costa del Sol where they had been living before their arrest . |
| 45 | Several analysts were confounded by the strong performance : only on Monday they had been muttering about how sustainable recent performance had been , and querying whether the share price had not run ahead of itself . |
| 46 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 47 | THEY had been nit-picking for weeks . |
| 48 | Reluctantly realizing that major investment from the City was increasingly unlikely , they had been concentrating on the unions and council pension funds . |
| 49 | They had been fleeing from the pursuing cloud front , but now they were charging to meet its attack . |
| 50 | A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty . |
| 51 | They had been playing with the Bic lighter in a bedroom at their grandparents ' home . |
| 52 | They had been working about a mile along a blind underground roadway , ending at what is due to be a new coal face , when the roof fell in 500 yards behind them . |
| 53 | Throughout the trial the brothers had maintained that they had been working as agents for the British Government in Dublin . |
| 54 | Other European countries said that the new British Government would be positive and co-operative and would put forward proposals for bringing about the completion of the European Community , for which they had been working for the past 40 years . |
| 55 | If they had been working on fruit trees they 'd come in much higher . |
| 56 | Mr Siddle , of Hesleden Avenue , Acklam , Middlesbrough , said they had been working on the operation the previous day and the pipe kept jamming when attempts were made to slot it into place . |
| 57 | Is there anything you can tell me about the two young women who died after they had been working in this house , Theresa Nolan and Diana Travers ? ’ |
| 58 | Writing the software was somewhat tedious , but having to work at this level did help the designers to get away from preconceptions about interaction which they might have had if they had been working within the input/output facilities provided by a conventional mini or mainframe operating system ( for example , that it needs a RETURN to terminate user input or that the operating system can properly handle the echoing of characters to the terminal ) . |
| 59 | They had been preparing for a raid themselves the next day ; a big raid ; five galleys of men , gathered in Arivegaig ready to board the ships in the dawn . |
| 60 | ‘ I do n't know what he meant , ’ Allen said after they had been walking for some time on the soft turf at the verge of the track . |