Example sentences of "had be [v-ing] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been thinking more about her companion since the death of Spike . |
| 2 | Before the operation my speech had been getting more slurred , so that only people who knew me well could understand me . |
| 3 | All season she had been getting more and more angry with herself when she played badly and there were times , when she was at her most frustrated , that she would savagely scratch the skin from her forehead . |
| 4 | Patients were excluded if they had evidence of intestinal obstruction , previous gastric surgery , a contraindication to steroid treatment , or had been receiving more than 7.5 mg prednisolone/ day at the time of relapse . |
| 5 | Prior to this date there had been suggestions from London that the miners in the north had been acting more in their own interests than the society 's . |
| 6 | She gave a quick glance at her watch , put on an hour on the ferry to accommodate the time change , and saw that it had gone six , and that , apart for a stop for petrol and a brief stop in Aachen for a cup of coffee , she had been driving more or less continuously since just after nine that morning . |
| 7 | Since she had been working more or less at full stretch before she 'd been given the extra work to do , there was only one way she could fit more work into her day , and that was by working late at the office , then going home with a bulging briefcase . |
| 8 | It had been going more and more slowly since diving down from the weathercock . |
| 9 | Maria had been feeling more vulnerable than she had ever done in her life , but now she lost her temper . |