Example sentences of "had be making [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | These became , in fact , the almost exclusive preserve of Hammer Films , a company that had been making skilfully-marketed pictures with an eye on the US B-movie market since the late 1940s . |
2 | As a result , two other trains from the North-East , which had been making additional stops in York at 7.34 and 7.53 , will no longer do so . |
3 | In support of this , the coordinator had been making extensive use of the County Topic Loan Service , the school library and the adjacent community library . |
4 | Louis XV was not , however , enthusiastic about the scheme and , after trying for a year to interest him , de Broglie , a soldier , decided to pool his information and ideas with de Choiseul , who , controlling the Ministries of Marine , War and Foreign Affairs , had been making independent plans of his own . |
5 | The Free French group , however , had been making excellent progress and were well on the way to becoming operational . |