Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] at " 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 | Breeze had been gazing at the lights for so long that she was quite dazzled . |
| 3 | The woman behind the counter had been gazing at her through strong spectacles and now scratched doubtfully at her moustache with a thumb-nail . |
| 4 | Robert could not have said why , but he had the strong impression that the engineering master , too , had been listening at the door . |
| 5 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Daniel had been officiating at a funeral . |
| 8 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 9 | She heard the incredulity in his voice and it fuelled the small truth that had been niggling at her , unacknowledged , all day . |
| 10 | And in understanding the old picture so vividly , he has prepared us to appreciate , and to understand , many things which we either could not previously have hoped to understand , or which we had been looking at with half-open eyes . |
| 11 | He had exactly eight minutes to hear a report back from business leaders who had been looking at inner-city schools . |
| 12 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 13 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 14 | It was me she had been looking at all that time , but secretively , like a girl . |
| 15 | After a one-minute search , he noticed the National Geographic magazine which he had been looking at with the teacher earlier in the day . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , is n't that a terrible poor ibex ! ’ exclaimed Mrs Healy , having identified easily what the girls had been looking at . |
| 17 | She had been looking at Mick , but turned slowly and looked at Joe , and smiling slightly said , ‘ Yes ; yes , of course . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | HP CEO John Young told a meeting of analysts last week that HP had been looking at both the USL and OSF kernels , but had no plans in place to license USL technology . |
| 20 | As soon as Fiver had found a place to clamber out , he led the way along the edge to the bank which Hazel had been looking at before Hawkbit spoke to him . |
| 21 | But finally deciding it was time to move off , and doing his best to ignore the rooks , which began to mob him again the moment he took flight , he flew three hundred yards to another oak which he had been looking at with some care . |
| 22 | A woman who had been looking at the screen turned to him and said , " I saw one , round at my daughter 's . |
| 23 | Donna saw the exhibit her sister had been looking at and crossed to it . |
| 24 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 25 | He turned sharply from the french window and the view he had been looking at so intently . |
| 26 | And he passed her the list he had been looking at when she entered . |
| 27 | Maybe my dad was really and truly dead and what I had been looking at , in the road outside our house and in Furnival Gardens , had been a hologram put out by the Tellenoreans . |
| 28 | There was the sudden roar of a car engine and a screech of tyres and the red car that Stuart had been looking at sped forward and stopped at the entrance with its passenger door swinging open . |
| 29 | The human had been looking at one of those big sheets of paper … |
| 30 | She had been looking at the castle for the last hour . |