Example sentences of "[num] [adj] [noun] had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some years the three-cornered parish with its three Mass centres had been looking to provide a parish centre with meeting and function rooms and to locate the priests ' house onsite . |
| 2 | Three local anglers had been watching the pantomime with great enjoyment , and I have yet to live it down . |
| 3 | Some 1,500 high-school students had been protesting against the reintroduction of mid-term examinations and had also called for increased government spending on education . |
| 4 | Murray said one particular employee had been going about the depot under the influence of drugs . |
| 5 | In May 1945 Yugoslav partisans had been spreading through Allied-occupied Austria , trying to annexe much of it to their own country . |
| 6 | The two young people had been sitting in silence for most of the time Nahum had been upstairs , Seb gazing morosely into the fire and Carrie reading at the kitchen table . |
| 7 | A qualified nurse Pamela Armstrong said that she and two other woman had been running a stall in the Bootle Strand shopping centre . |
| 8 | At the time ASEAN was created in August 1967 Soviet officials had been anticipating an American attempt to construct a broader alliance to replace the decrepit SEATO . |