Example sentences of "had [be] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four of them had been taking non-steroidal anti inflammatory drugs ( NSAIDs ) for a mean period of 10 ( range one to 18 ) months for arthritis and remarkably one of these had DU in spite of having pentagastrin fast achlorhydria due to pernicious anaemia . |
| 2 | Robyn 's mother , Vera Williams , of Wilton Village , who is now looking after Penny , said since her daughter had her baby she had suffered postnatal depression and had been taking various prescribed drugs . |
| 3 | Of these , 44 had been taking delayed release mesalazine as the sole maintenance treatment for at least six months . |
| 4 | The Golf Information Centre telephonists , recently trained in passable French , had been taking advanced bookings from around the world . |
| 5 | Mr Major had been taking private soundings about such a move before Christmas . |
| 6 | Trade unions representing ambulance workers and National Health Service ( NHS ) management agreed on Feb. 23 on a phased pay increase for ambulance workers , who since September 1989 had been taking varying degrees of industrial action [ see p. 37160 ] . |
| 7 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |
| 8 | A couple of months earlier , Buhler had been introduced to Coleman by Marshall Lee Miller in Washington , and since then had been urging Shaughnessy to talk to Coleman because he had ‘ a great deal of interesting information concerning the crash of Flight 103 ’ . |
| 9 | For many years the Accounting Standards Committee ( the ASC ) of the accountancy bodies had been producing valuable Statements of Standard Accounting Practice ( SSAPs ) and had done its best to ensure that they were observed — not always successfully since the Statements had no statutory recognition . |
| 10 | Because Britain had been producing nuclear power longer than most other countries , this was a particularly acute problem . |
| 11 | In a report on Hrawi 's tour on June 10 , the ( Phalangist ) Voice of Lebanon radio stated that the President had been seeking Arab support for the implementation of the October 1989 Taif Accord for Lebanese national reconciliation [ see p. 36986 ] . |
| 12 | Mitra attacked a secret visit by Ramos to Switzerland in mid-February , hinting that Ramos had been seeking foreign funds for his campaign . |
| 13 | The ad-man opposite had been casting meaningful glances at her all evening , and the likeliest explanation seemed to be that she and Roger were doing a number together and I 'd inadvertently got caught in the crossfire . |
| 14 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 15 | It subsequently emerged that Lady Essex had been administering debilitating potions to her husband and was implicated in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury , who knew too much about this . |
| 16 | This was in response to reports that Collor 's main political advisers had been using federal funds to solicit the votes of the 168 deputies needed to fend off the impeachment initiative . |
| 17 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |
| 18 | Lutyens had been using classical detail in some form or other since his earliest years as an architect . |
| 19 | The Belgrade-based news agency Tanjug quoted Serb forces as saying Muslims had been using heavy artillery to bombard Serb positions in the Bratunac region of eastern Bosnia . |
| 20 | ‘ Not at all , ’ Rain said quickly , deducing she had been looking bored . |
| 21 | A Planning Committee had been meeting weekly in 1969 , but the College had not wanted to be too rigid in imposing teaching methods . |
| 22 | Throughout the decade , Grierson had been sponsoring young filmmakers to go out and record the lives of ordinary working people . |
| 23 | It was pointed out that from the early '60s onwards some parts of British manufacturing had been facing increased economic difficuIties , in particular because of heightened international competition , which firms had been adopting strategies to counter . |
| 24 | The tin-mining towns of Camborne and Redruth on the north coast of Cornwall had been facing major redundancies since the 1985 plunge in tin prices . |
| 25 | The authority had been hoping Heswallbased developers Dayglobe would buy the Grade Two listed property . |
| 26 | The authority had been hoping Heswallbased developers Dayglobe would buy the Grade Two listed property . |
| 27 | It was again as if she had been struck , her hands barely moving along the surface of the dresser she had been wiping clean of dust , her head going low , and when she finished she went to put the damp cloth carefully beside the sink , moving a simmering saucepan from the hotplate . |
| 28 | Meanwhile , the corporate-finance deals that had been generating big bucks for Wall Street 's investment bankers were starting to dry up . |
| 29 | The inquest heard there were no footpaths and Mr Hughes had been wearing dark clothing . |
| 30 | The bruise was a dull , greenish sickle of shadow just under the cheek-bone and then a comma of purple on the side of the nose , as if Culley had been wearing ill-fitting glasses . |