Example sentences of "had be [v-ing] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Butler had been taking a collection-box home when he was attacked on the Tube , kicked in the face , kneed in the stomach , had his head banged against a door and almost strangled . |
| 2 | Builder Dave Young , wife Jane and son Paul , three — who had been taking a dip in the hotel pool — were left with just the costumes they had on . |
| 3 | Kochen maintained that DEC had been taking a worldwide census of ‘ hundreds of customers ’ recently to ascertain whether OSF/1-on-MIPS was a viable policy . |
| 4 | The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings . |
| 5 | Susan had been taking a few items of clothing from a chest of drawers to a suitcase open on the bed . |
| 6 | Sir Robin Day , who had been taking a nap on a sofa in the BBC room in the balcony , was hurriedly awakened . |
| 7 | Morse had not started the crossword yet ( ‘ Ichabod' this week ) , but just to the right of it Lewis noticed a brief item on a fatal accident at the Marston Ferry Road traffic lights : a young student who had been taking a crash course in EFL . |
| 8 | Ann had been taking an antidepressant for 6 months without much benefit . |
| 9 | All of us young people , even unbelievers , had been taking an interest in Thomism . |
| 10 | After Peggy had been serving a while she muttered , ‘ Spotted a likely in the new wave , duchess ? ’ and the blue-eyed blonde with the full-lipped mouth shook her head as she said , ‘ They all look married to me . ’ |
| 11 | He had been serving a 20-year term in Nicosia 's central prison . |
| 12 | On Aug. 27 Dieter Gerhardt , a former commander of the Simonstown naval base , was released from prison where he had been serving a life sentence since 1983 after being convicted of acting as an agent for the Soviet Union [ see p. 32659 ] . |
| 13 | But unknown to the gunman , a little boy had been stealing a ride on the bar under the carriage , and he saw it all . |
| 14 | The headmistress and the governors of the school named were justly irate , for , they stated with concerted vehemence , no child had witnessed the recovery of the body of a murder victim from the canal : those children who had not been making stegosauruses out of old egg boxes had been learning an Ashanti war dance , and not one had been in the playground , which was the only vantage point from which body recovery would be observable . |
| 15 | Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Berdennikov said on Sept. 14 that the Soviet Union and later Russia had been violating a 1972 treaty banning germ warfare , at least until March 1992 . |
| 16 | I had been swimming a long time that first Sunday , far out in the bay , and he could easily have slipped the things on to the Bourani end of the beach while I was in the water . |
| 17 | 19 October 1799 ; off the southern tip of the Isle of Weight she had been escorting a convoy of merchant ships through the English Channel until , in comparative safety , the convoy dispersed to their destinations . |
| 18 | ‘ We had been escorting a convoy from Halifax to the UK and were ordered to leave the convoy , refuel in Reykjavik and take up patrol of the Denmark Strait , 150 miles west of Iceland . |
| 19 | It was later compounded by the fall-out from a family explosion : on Roger Ackerley 's death in 1929 the son discovered that , first , his father had been maintaining a separate menage and that , second , the money had run out . |
| 20 | All the while , Julian Bailey had been maintaining a strong , gritty pursuit with the Nissan , and he was only 7secs behind Baldi 's second-placed Mercedes when he made his fuel stop early on lap 31 . |
| 21 | But if Berowne had been seeking a moment for further confidences it had disappeared . |
| 22 | Latterly he had been involved in eel fishing and had been seeking a place to keep his eels alive and fresh . |
| 23 | It is clear that throughout the second half of 1184 Henry Ii had been seeking a solution to the problem of the succession . |
| 24 | The miners had been seeking a 25 per cent pay increase , but the mine faced an uncertain future , with reserves expected to run out by 1996 . |
| 25 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |
| 26 | The mother , who already has twins , had been using a fertility drug . |
| 27 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 28 | Her main interest was in the time course of memory formation , and she had been using a variety of drugs , including agents which disrupt entry of ions such as potassium into the cell , and also protein synthesis inhibitors , to dissect out a series of phases , which she described as short- , intermediate- and long-term memory . |
| 29 | However , he had been using a slightly different definition of a black hole . |
| 30 | Wearing one of his more elaborate uniforms complete with medals , the monarch had been using a soda siphon , which , because of some defect , had backfired and showered him with mineral water . |