Example sentences of "had been coming [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ethel shook her head in puzzlement , but a gleam had been coming into Eames 's eyes . |
| 2 | Bristol had previously been heavily involved in the Iceland trade , but had been coming under pressure from increasing Hanse power there , and its merchants may well have been looking for alternative supplies of fish — it is worth stressing that the ships sent out in 1481 in search of the ‘ Isle of Brasil ’ were carrying a large quantity of salt ( 45 , pp.188–9 ; 94 , pp.177–82 ) . |
| 3 | Even more part of it than Rosie , who had been coming for years . |
| 4 | She was not unexpected ; she had been coming for months . |
| 5 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 6 | She had been coming to Alexandria , to the Hotel Normandie , for a few weeks every spring for almost forty years . |
| 7 | Cook had the afternoon off and she had been coming to grips with her occasional souffle , when the ‘ monster ’ had started its cacophony . |
| 8 | He had been coming to Hawaii since he was thirteen and competing since he was seventeen . |