Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He said he thought his mummy had been having car trouble because she had n't turned up . |
| 2 | Andrew Garthwaite had been playing pool with his attacker and thought at first it was a joke . |
| 3 | The SAAF had been operating Dakotas since June 1943 , with a total of 58 on charge , flying principally from southern Africa to North Africa and then into Italy . |
| 4 | On Feb. 6 , with the agreement of the authorities in the Georgian autonomous republic of Abkhazia , government troops established control in Sukhumi , where rallies in support of the deposed President had been taking place daily . |
| 5 | Meantime , the Parents ' Action Committee had been writing letters to Councillors as well . |
| 6 | A woman who knew her told the court the girl had been abusing solvents for some time . |
| 7 | A pretty Israeli girl had been selling magazines in the little paper-shop on the corner . |
| 8 | Then , when I returned to the shrine — to Oak Lodge — I realized that the Keeton girl had been making contact with me . ’ |
| 9 | The motorist had been travelling Northbound on the M Six near the Walsall and Wolverhampton turnoff . |
| 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 | I accept that erm and of course he 's dealing with it , approaching it from the basis that that factual issue is one she 's resolved in favour of the plaintiff erm it may be that there 's very little issue between us , it may be that the defendant would concede if your Lordship were to find that er the plaintiff had been asking Mr on several occasions to get him out of the contract , it may be conceded , I know not . |
| 12 | The passenger committee , who throughout the crisis had been sending telegrams to prominent Americans asking them to intercede , could think of no one else to contact . |
| 13 | Consequently , the sample group had been using heroin for an average of five years when they were interviewed . |
| 14 | Given that most of the interviewee group had been using heroin for between four and five years , most had contacted their GP , and frequently several different GPs , on a number of occasions . |
| 15 | The weekend attack was also condemned by local Alliance councillor Tom Campbell , who said the same group had been terrorising pensioners in the Cavehill area during the past few months . |
| 16 | The Local Plan inquiry had been taking place and the village had made a large input thanks to help from Rear Admiral Charles Weston and Christine Darter , who had devoted time and effort in presenting the parish point of view on many matters . |
| 17 | ‘ I read in my Harmsworth Magazine once that a man died because he ate rabbit pie and the rabbit had been eating belladonna . |
| 18 | The tanker had been transporting oil from the United Kingdom North Sea terminal at Sullom Voe to La Coruña 's refinery , when it was driven on to rocks during a sudden squall . |
| 19 | Until then the compound had been gathering dust on the shelves of the company 's research laboratories on the campus at Reading University . |
| 20 | All that term his father had been planning ways and means , trying to overturn the will , looking for compromises , plotting for all Adam knew a frontal assault . |
| 21 | Then it was there , the blurry light of the candles and the singing Happy Birthday and the big whoosh … and the clapping , and when the curtains were open again Benny saw the thin young man that her father had been shaking hands with . |
| 22 | It was still possible that the undertaker had been visiting Laura Passmore on the evening he disappeared , but why go to her by such a roundabout way ? |
| 23 | The laird had been studying Cameron with unwavering attention . |
| 24 | The Iranian consulate in Geneva had been occupied for four hours on Dec. 14 , 1988 , by opponents of the Tehran regime and evidence had been found that Tale had been collecting information on the Iranian exile community in Switzerland . |
| 25 | So Ace had been teaching Dara a lesson , had he ? |
| 26 | The 21-year-old student had been visiting Southport on her return to Munich after watching the TT races in the Isle of Man . |
| 27 | This particular firm had been causing fish mortalities in the stream — about half a dozen fish mortalities in the sixties . |
| 28 | A spokeswoman said the man had been making door to door calls , asking for donations . |
| 29 | A survey of the wreckage was said to have proved that the helicopter had been carrying combat weapons and armed personnel as well as civilians ; the Georgian side attributed the crash itself to overloading , with 64 passengers on a 24-seat helicopter . |
| 30 | The decision came last month after the government had been considering bids from the remaining two consortia interested in BTG . |