Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Stopfordians ' Association had been trying for many years to raise sufficient money to build the Pavilion , and indeed had sold the Harrison Towns field some three years previously for this very reason . |
| 2 | The Betting Shop association had been looking into the circumstances surrounding the horse 's win at Lingfield two weeks ago . |
| 3 | Ian Clark and Nicholas Wheeler demonstrate the degree to which British thinking had been moving in this direction since 1943 . |
| 4 | Derry City 's new boy conceded Roy Coyle 's side had been going through a lean period but he said the lads would bounce back . |
| 5 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 6 | The figures were much the same after the experiment had been running for three months , but 83% thought the experiment should continue . |
| 7 | This was interesting ; some tritium was occurring naturally in the heavy water and when they measured the tritium levels after the experiment had been running for some hours they found that the tritium level had dropped . |
| 8 | The IDB president , Enrique Iglesias of Uruguay , had said on April 4 that although Japanese investment had been rising in Chile , Mexico , Brazil and Venezuela , " we see potential for much more " . |
| 9 | That increase resulted in the rest of the world overtaking the European Community , whose investment had been falling since 1987 , reaching an all-time low in 1991 , with a share of just over 3 per cent . |
| 10 | ‘ We think one soldier had been playing with the weapon when it went off . |
| 11 | The car had been waiting for him . |
| 12 | It was obvious to Michael and Geoffrey that the car had been waiting for them . |
| 13 | The car had been travelling along the A534 from Wrexham to Holt when it went out of control . |
| 14 | Crash investigator , David Bristow used tyre marks on the road and a reconstruction to calculate that Gooch 's car had been travelling at up to 96 mph . |
| 15 | His best guess was that the reference was to Nerys , that his unconscious mind had been looking for comfort in the prospect that Wayne would at least be with his mother , in which case he decided that there was probably some hope for his mental state after all . |
| 16 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 17 | A stranger had been chatting with Mrs O for some time . |
| 18 | But C&P 's Hexaplas technology service department had been looking at the possibility of recycling flexible PVC . |
| 19 | Yet at the time the report was released , the actual company that was used as the basis for the research had been trading for five months and is coping well with a difficult launch period and providing to be highly successful in meeting its targets . |
| 20 | Recently , tension had been building along the South Hampshire coast , culminating in the arrest of a man suspected of stealing the eggs of the protected migrant seabird — the little tern . |
| 21 | Since early April , tension had been growing between Tito and the Western Allies over Tito 's claim that the whole of the area of north-east Italy known as Venezia Giulia should become part of a " Greater Yugoslavia " . |
| 22 | She calmly told me that the police had called round and that Nassim had been looking for me . |
| 23 | In addition the gas industry had been investing in expensive pipeline and other transportation systems to import gas from Canada , Mexico and Algeria , in anticipation of a continuing supply shortfall which the Natural Gas Policy Act effectively removed , in the short term at least . |
| 24 | The City and the Confederation of British Industry had been looking for some indication of earlier participation in the exchange rate mechanism of the EMS . |
| 25 | This was the tonic which the nuclear industry had been waiting for — a government which was both strongly sympathetic to its point of view , and prepared to make firm decisions . |
| 26 | The minister 's answer in Parliament that the cost to the airlines of providing concessionary travel for airline employees would be nothing was exactly what in practice had been happening under the old law . |
| 27 | The defender had been playing with Limerick on a short-term contract . |
| 28 | Dr Horn 's assessment is that by the 1790s the southern farm labourer 's standard of living had been falling for thirty years , and that an increase of around 85 per cent in money wages over the war years kept it just about level up to 1815 . |
| 29 | Sensual pleasure had been swirling around her . |
| 30 | Afterwards , he remembered that Lots Road power station had smoked whitely into a grey sky , and that along the Embankment a cold wind had been whipping off the river , driving spread-eagled pages from an old newspaper before it and wrapping one of them round the legs of a tall , frail man in a tweed overcoat . |