Example sentences of "[vb past] been following [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We studied 20 children with coeliac disease who had been following a gluten free diet for mean ( SD ) 14 ( 3 ) months . |
| 2 | She had been following a trail Minter had turned his back on , but Harry had the photographs to keep him on course . |
| 3 | During the months preceding the accident , a set of underground workings , easiest thought of by the layman as a tunnel 18 feet wide and 7 feet high , had been following a seam of coal which was rising very steeply towards the surface . |
| 4 | Right up until the coup in nineteen twenty seven they had been following a policy dictated by Moscow , dictated by Stalin which told them form alliances with the Kuomintang , work with the Kuomintang , first of all trust Chiang Kai-shek , then when Chiang Kai-shek turned on them they were told to trust the left Kuomintang leaders who were based in Wo Han in the middle Yangtze valleys , and then they turned on them a policy , in other words , that had proved absolutely disastrous . |
| 5 | He ended up 200 miles off course and when the Salisbury beacon came in showing a 160 mile track error to the west , he realised he had been following a star ! |
| 6 | My Chief-of-Staff , who had been following the progress of the attack from a more distant position in Consenvoye Wood on the eastern bank , telephoned to me that the attack had failed and that everywhere our men could be seen falling back . |
| 7 | ‘ Green ? ’ said one of the small boys , all of whom had been following the conversation as closely as the men . |
| 8 | This result was not unexpected , given the relatively short period these patients had been following the gluten free diet before entering the protocol . |
| 9 | Dommer had been following the exchange from his bunk , where he was obsessively stripping and reassembling his flamer . |