Example sentences of "had be [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 2 | So that national er budget that had been accumulating over , over twenty thirty years just basically vanished . |
| 3 | Robert had returned from Italy where he had been serving ever since he had been commissioned eighteen months before . |
| 4 | Carol had been gazing gloomily at the lake . |
| 5 | Corbett had been snooping there and seized a juicy morsel , first visiting his old friend at St Bartholomew 's and then the poisoner in Faltour 's Lane . |
| 6 | The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus . |
| 7 | She had been listening slightly spellbound to this smooth recital , and now she said , ‘ How far can you go ? ’ |
| 8 | Carrie had been listening intently , enthralled and hanging on to the union man 's every word , but she suddenly caught sight of Fred standing at the counter . |
| 9 | He had been listening carefully . |
| 10 | Matilda , who had been listening closely , said , ‘ But daddy , that 's even more dishonest than the sawdust . |
| 11 | Since she had been drifting luxuriously into sleep , it took a second for the voice to register , but when it did , it acted like a bucket of ice-cold water flung over her sun-warmed limbs , and she jack-knifed upright , her eyes wide with shock . |
| 12 | He was expecting a visit from the young woman he had been wooing assiduously and he had carefully orchestrated the evening so that all his housemates were out and he had the house to himself . |
| 13 | It was noticeably warm , as if it had been hiding somewhere snug . |
| 14 | Well if he was there and you came along well that 's two people , so it 's not that secluded , okay , so we have to look on the positive side , if at the end of the day you 're going to get to a situation where , okay , you can see that the ordinary erm true blue course of events is just not gon na work , then it 's down to you , you have then got to make up your own mind what you 're going to do for the casualty and your own safety , okay , if somebody had been bleeding that long and you could n't of got help for them , what would your priority now probably be ? |
| 15 | It must have felt lonely when a respected customer ( whose name was not exposed even to me ) dropped from under her coat the bag of flour she had been concealing there . |
| 16 | But it is a mistake , surely , to think of emotive meaning as a form of meaning in that most important sense of meaning in which we ask what someone meant by saying something , or what he would have meant if he had been speaking properly . |
| 17 | His former colleague had been speaking loudly , and his talk was treasonable . |
| 18 | ‘ Fred Proctor asked him to sit down as he had been speaking long enough . |
| 19 | And I already had Jackie because Jackie had been speaking earlier on the tapes . |
| 20 | The conclusion could hardly be avoided that the Führer , who only a short while before had been speaking so confidently of imminent victory , had been mistaken . |
| 21 | They had been speaking quite naturally in Yek . |
| 22 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 23 | He had been batting steadily and was well set , and since England , 328 ahead with three wickets left , were apparently in control they should have used all the time available to build up their score . |
| 24 | The expediter — ‘ Joy ’ — was the envoy of a client of mine : the Construction and Development Corporation of the Philippines ( CDCP ) , a local company my bank had been courting unsuccessfully for years . |
| 25 | Marcus , who had been leaning forward , relaxed his pose and began to massage his left hand with his right . |
| 26 | She had glimpsed Emily Grenfell who had been leaning forward in her carriage , staring out into the crowded roadway , her emeralds shining at her throat , the green richness of the stones glittering in the light from the street lamps . |
| 27 | Sarah put the trowel she had been using carefully into her garden basket and removed her garden gloves . |
| 28 | ‘ In the concreted yard at the back of the flats at Water Eaton Road stood a light-weight , rubber-wheeled , aluminium wheelbarrow which one of the maintenance men had been using earlier that day . |
| 29 | He had been looking forward to showing it all to her . |
| 30 | One moment he had been looking forward to a happy and wealthy retirement and now , minutes later , he was a condemned criminal with only a few hours left to live . |