Example sentences of "had be [v-ing] [noun] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Closures of railway lines had been taking place for many years , accelerated by the growing availability of cars in the 1950s . |
| 2 | ‘ The teacher was not highly qualified but very much alive and specially trained in English medium teaching at Kagumo Training College nearby ; the children had been learning English for six months . |
| 3 | Second , almost three-quarters of these interviewees had been using heroin for two years or less by the start of the prevalence study period . |
| 4 | It was a process which had been gathering momentum for some time and has continued since . |
| 5 | Doreen Copas had to be reminded that she had been teaching Medau for all of 25 years by her Herts and Cambs colleagues and class members ; they presented her with a generous gift of garden tokens on the occasion of the Westhampstead Rally . |
| 6 | A woman who knew her told the court the girl had been abusing solvents for some time . |
| 7 | I had been seeing Jessica for twelve months before she admitted to herself that her lover would never come back . |
| 8 | One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out . |
| 9 | It had been losing money for 3 years . |
| 10 | The sturdily independent high tech sector had naught for the comfort of either major party in the run-up to today 's by-election in Newbury , Berkshire when the big guns from party headquarters showed up for photocalls during the build-up : Labour chose Vodafone Group Plc and tried to commiserate about the recession , only to be told that business had been going gangbusters for several months , the Tories went looking for green shoots at Micro Focus Plc , only to be told that the UK market was flat on its back , and that it was only foreign sales that were keeping the old Coboller busy . |
| 11 | We had been exchanging enthusiasms for Italian opera and I was enticed by his collection of Caruso recordings . |
| 12 | Englefield had been fighting 'Mill for second spot . |