Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 2 | Below them , a large group of human subjects had been circling for hours around a roller rink set among the trees . |
| 3 | Professor Alex McDougall , convener of the institute 's VAT sub-committee , said ICAS had been pressing for Customs and Excise and the VAT tribunal to have to power to mitigate penalties . |
| 4 | My head was n't really in the right state for assimilating all this stuff , but as far as I could gather , Uncle Rory had been trying for years to come up with something Creative ( his capital , his italics ) . |
| 5 | On the evidence before the learned judge , it was plain that Wickes had been trading on Sundays and intended to continue doing so in the future unless restrained by the court ; and it was common ground between the parties that Wickes ' Sunday trading was in breach of section 47 unless that section had been rendered ineffective by article 30 of the Treaty . |
| 6 | ACET 's local representative , Ana Ureche , reported that she was ‘ greatly encouraged ’ that course participants had been lecturing to schools and other groups and had passed much of the literature obtained form the course to other colleagues for their use . |
| 7 | Sylvia had been trying for years to overcome her claustrophobia , but with little or no success . |
| 8 | Dr Gilbert has pointed out that when the evangelist Hannah More remarked in 1789 on the existence of whole village populations no less estranged from the services of the Church than were heathens , she was belatedly recognising something which Wesley and Whitefield had been proclaiming for decades . |
| 9 | The ancient Egyptians had been trying for centuries to prevent the export of their sacred felines . |
| 10 | Borough councillors heard yesterday that 1992 is Car Crime Prevention Year and officers had been looking at ways of getting the message across . |
| 11 | Gran had been muttering about storms for days and she liked her to stay close at these times . |
| 12 | Mr Wolski knew already that the old eagle had been ailing for months now and that three weeks ago they had finally taken her out of her cage and into the veterinary block to see if there was anything they could do for her . |
| 13 | People had been waiting for years for freedom ‘ and they 've now had enough ’ . |
| 14 | Don had been experimenting for years before he took out the patent in 1970 and significantly stated that ‘ The difference in camber and relative incidence on the central fore and aft sections serves to stabilise the kite in pitch ’ . |
| 15 | The government had been thinking about ways for the administration to maintain some degree of control over the colonies since the mid-1650s ; in 1675 Charles set up the first organization to establish any record of continuity , a sign that his possessions overseas were settling down into some sort of discernible order . |
| 16 | Her daughter had been sleeping with boys , and men since she was fourteen . |
| 17 | When his court-appointed attorney , Michael Deutsch , filed a discovery motion on 30 August for documents that might show Coleman had been acting under orders when he applied for the Thomas Leavy passport , the DEA , the DIA and the CIA all declined to comply on grounds of national security . |
| 18 | Coleman had been lecturing to officers of the army medical staff at Woolwich , and Dr Rollo and the officers of the medical staff signed a memorial , suggesting Coleman 's appointment as veterinary surgeon to the Ordnance . |
| 19 | Long 's health had been deteriorating for years , but he had kept open his channels of communication ; like Law his influence was based on years of devotion to the interests of the party , and like Law 's that influence had been used to argue the case for coalition . |
| 20 | While the specialist was examining her legs , Janet mentioned that Lisa had been suffering from aches in her neck . |
| 21 | She woke early on the morning of July 29 , 1981 which is not surprising as her room overlooked the Mall where the singing , chattering crowds had been gathering for days . |
| 22 | At last the government recognised what many researchers had been saying for years : that corporal punishment did not address the causes of bad behaviour , caused resentment among older pupils in particular , and was ‘ inimical to the quality of relationships between teachers and pupils upon which good behaviour is based ’ . |
| 23 | Sulphur candles had been burning for days , leaving the house free of vermin , then the whole place had been painted from top to bottom . |
| 24 | Word even came out of Tibet that the Odonata had been assisting at sky-burials , where corpses are left in sacred mountainous places for the attention of scavenger birds . |
| 25 | The family had been preparing for months . |
| 26 | Mr Kallisher told the jury : ‘ The defendant tried to raise in the minds of the police a suspicion that Julie had been dealing with drugs stolen from the hospital and perhaps her murder was connected with that , not with him . ’ |