Example sentences of "[adv] [noun] had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Fernando had been playing by himself — her heart bled for him ! |
| 2 | Obviously Stirling had been lobbying hard for new blood . |
| 3 | John Dalton eventually elicited the truth of his identity from him and offered him sanctuary as a hermit in his own home ( perhaps Richard had been reconnoitring in his disappearance before dinner ) and at his own expense . |
| 4 | And so Jesus had been teaching the people . |
| 5 | So perhaps Lesley-Jane had been telling the truth in her description of the relationship . |
| 6 | So Ace had been teaching Dara a lesson , had he ? |
| 7 | So Silas had been discussing her , she thought resentfully . |
| 8 | He was working against time ; he had promised Browne that he would complete the play by the summer , and already Browne had been negotiating with Rudolf Bing , the director of the Edinburgh Festival , to have The Cocktail Party performed as part of that year 's event . |
| 9 | Meanwhile Rob had been having his own separate grapple with dismal failure . |
| 10 | Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Grigory Berdennikov said on Sept. 14 that the Soviet Union and later Russia had been violating a 1972 treaty banning germ warfare , at least until March 1992 . |
| 11 | Clearly Leopold had been interceding on Wolfgang 's behalf , in the hope of getting him home and back under his jurisdiction as soon as possible . |
| 12 | For some time now Zen had been wondering where they were going . |
| 13 | For some years now Pecham had been lecturing in Rome where he was noted for his austerity , his learning and his authoritarianism . |
| 14 | … once the CNAA even began to lend its support to this development , there literally was a kind of explosion , and plainly institutions had been looking and waiting for validation in this field … |
| 15 | He said well Karen had been getting moody . |
| 16 | I 've had this twice and each time its been , its been other people , because his got a lot of goods people 's belongings out of one cupboard into another and the second time round there 's been purgatory because he brought Karen 's house , her hoover and the saucepans and everything that was his , everything that belonged to him but he said that before , I said why was Michelle able to jumped in between him and Karen , he said well Karen had been getting moody , and he said Karen was getting bored , Paul is boring , she 's told Paul that his boring boring . |
| 17 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 18 | She knew how Donna had been banking on one of the boys being a good match , and it seemed neither of them were . |
| 19 | I confirm that Councillor Young came to the Department in July with five hours ' worth of videos showing how Derbyshire had been running down its schools . |
| 20 | Fortunately Newley had been wearing a tie and belt . |
| 21 | Dai told the story of how one of the visitors , a wealthy industrialist , came into his well stocked shop to use the phone and find out how things had been going at work during his absence . |
| 22 | The Life of Johnson makes plain how Boswell had been staking out the ground since their early acquaintance , making notes immediately after each meeting of what he himself was eventually to ‘ consider the peculiar value ’ of the Life , ‘ that is , the quantity it contains of Johnson 's conversation ’ . |
| 23 | Minutes earlier Bethan had been splashing about when single parent Andrea , 22 , left the bathroom to take care of the other girl , Rhiannon . |
| 24 | By then Jeremy had been missing for 11 days . |
| 25 | Especially since by then Laura had been earning a great deal of money , and all the past difficulties had more or less been solved . |
| 26 | Earl Grey was so English , so sedate , and maybe Ilsa had been living that way for fifty years . |
| 27 | For a change of subject , they chose Sniffy Wilson , one of them having heard how colleagues had been tailing two armed members of the Goad gang , Donovan and Wytcherly , and at the end of a hair-raising fifteen minutes found they had arrested Sniffy as well . |
| 28 | One family tea-time , when Auntie had been sitting silent for some time , she said : " It 's lucky there 's never anyone left in those offices at night . " |
| 29 | It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding . |
| 30 | Previously Gould had been making other extraordinary discoveries from Darwin 's collection . |