Example sentences of "[coord] [vb past] [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another , a woman who was living , and had been living for many years in , in continuous adultery ! |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | The twins had wandered out of the rectory garden and had been missing for twenty minutes . |
| 4 | Direct Line Insurance is Britain 's largest direct insurer and had been running at 100,000 new policies or thereabouts for three years . |
| 5 | He had grown up in Weston-super-Mare and had been working in local radio in Bristol before joining us in the mid 1970s . |