Example sentences of "had [be] [v-ing] [prep] six " in BNC.
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| 1 | One student looking for employment had finished his grant entitlement in the first quarter of 1984 , and had been job-seeking for six months ( Table 7.2 ) . |
| 2 | Jo and Ryan had been dating for six months and had progressed some way beyond parking now . |
| 3 | The travellers had been driving for six hours , and as the meter in the cab had been showing a steady sixty miles an hour , they must have covered over three hundred and fifty miles . |
| 4 | The twenty eight year-old mother of two had been missing for six days when police frogmen pulled her submerged Renault car out of the river . |
| 5 | The same production had been playing in six or seven theatres in Britain already , and no fire officer in any of those places had found any problem . |