Example sentences of "had been [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The dahabeeyah had moored for the night and the three girls had been up on the top deck enjoying the evening breeze . |
| 2 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
| 3 | She had been up since six , but respect for the Shills ' privacy had made her refrain from enquiring until 9.30 . |
| 4 | Roxburgh summed up the occasion by saying his team had ‘ everything to gain and nothing to lose ’ , an ironic choice of phrase given the fact that the national coach had been up since 6.30am figuring out ways to compensate for loss . |
| 5 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 6 | By now , 1345 hours , the Colonel had been up with the leading Troops for more than because two hours , and as the short Arctic day was drawing to a close he ordered the withdrawal to begin . |
| 7 | That morning Sara had been up with the dawn to walk for the last time in the castle grounds to say goodbye to her doves , her servants , her horses and her hounds , the last of which seemed to sense what was happening and started howling as soon as she had departed . |
| 8 | Vivien had been up at St Hugh 's , so I was looking forward to her being an excellent guide . |
| 9 | The guys who had been up at Lockerbie , after Pan Am 103 , working alongside the British police , they did n't know how lucky they 'd been … |
| 10 | Jarvis Stringer 's grandparents ' qualifications for keeping a school were that he had been up at Oxford where he had read Greats and she had left Goldsmith 's College halfway through her teacher training . |
| 11 | Slorne , who had been up at the back of her cage most of the day as usual , suddenly opened her wings , swung round and dropped down to the front of her cage . |
| 12 | Only that he had been up at San Carlos about two years and had a wife that was supposed to be very pretty and about fifteen years younger than he was . |
| 13 | It did n't look as if Hatton had been up to much on that Monday morning in Leeds , but you never knew . |
| 14 | By the time she reappeared , she had been up to Scotland and back , to spend the weekend with Charles at the Queen Mother 's home , Birkhall . |
| 15 | He was perfectly happy that way , or had been up to now , but it was n't a body to put to competition . |
| 16 | Nutty changed , and felt obliged to confess to her parents what she had been up to . |
| 17 | Worried that leaving it in the basket might suggest that she had been up to no good , the girl ran downstairs starkers with her boyfriend in hot pursuit , playfully offering to help . |
| 18 | Well , it will surprise you to know that Mrs Glen thought I , me , myself , personally had been up to no good . |
| 19 | Others , on some of the more northerly islands , away from the emotion and strength of feeling in South Ronaldsay , were still murmuring that ‘ there 's no smoke without fire ’ and speculating on what the parents of the nine children had been up to . |
| 20 | Benny heard from Patsy that the Healys had been up to Dublin to look for a child to adopt but they had n't got one because Mr Healy had a weak chest . |
| 21 | Perhaps it was that , or frustration , or , more probable still , a queer kind of prudery — he would rather his mother thought him a brute than realize what we had been up to — that made him hit me . |
| 22 | And the day after Holly had been up to London to apply from the Consulate for a visa there had been the telephone call at Letterworth Engineering . |
| 23 | North Korea would probably still have to admit , as Iraq has done under UN sanctions and as South Africa did voluntarily , that it had been up to no good . |
| 24 | They continued their research , but their reports were no longer published ( as they had been up to 1948 ) ; and , at a time when cost research was more clearly needed than ever before , Schiller 's team was starved of funds and talent . |
| 25 | Over the first course I made the usual polite inquiries about Sally 's new job and asked her what she had been up to for the last half-dozen years or so . |
| 26 | I imagined he had been up to something I would rather not know about . |
| 27 | ‘ I ca n't think , ’ said Betty , looking suspiciously at Lydia , as though wondering what she had been up to while her own attention had been elsewhere . |
| 28 | It was not , at present , the eternal verities which were occupying her mind but the simple gnawing question of what Memet had been up to behind her back . |
| 29 | She could n't stand Clarissa who , in the past , had quite often perceived it as her duty to inform Scarlet that her daughter , in one way or another , had been up to no good . |
| 30 | He made a mental note to check on what the builder had been up to . |