Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] back " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been drifting back and forth between the two ever since . |
| 2 | Crimean Tatars had been drifting back to their former homeland since 1987 , and a June 1988 central government ruling confirmed their right to residency [ see p. 36036 ] . |
| 3 | Hour after hour , the thoughts she had been pushing back came pouring out . |
| 4 | The outer door thumped shut , and the lock that had been holding back and resisting went home . |
| 5 | Now I had been hanging back , attempting to develop some strategy . |
| 6 | She and Jake had been driving back to Lomond View after accompanying Kirsty back to school when Jake had swivelled round in his seat to inform her , |
| 7 | She had been walking back along the track , head bent , deep in thought . |
| 8 | The stomach cramps had been coming back , off and on , all day , but so far she had been able to keep them under control . |
| 9 | We guessed , wrongly , that Frank had been talking back home . |
| 10 | Since early February oyster-catchers had been arriving back from spending the winter around the big estuaries of mainland Britain and by the end of March were well distributed in coastal areas . |
| 11 | Demonstrating what a simple change at the top can achieve , Compaq Computer Corp , which had sales of $3,200m last year and had been heading back towards the $2,000m mark under the previous regime , last week announced that it had made it through the $4,000m sales barrier for 1992 , with profits up 34% in the most recent quarter . |
| 12 | They had been heading back towards London when the strange conflict in the sky had been picked up by UNIT . |