Example sentences of "and [noun] had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She and Sarah had been sitting under the balcony and when the warning was given they moved forward but continued to enjoy the film in which John McCormack sang Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms and The Dawning of the Day . |
| 2 | The 20,000 urns and vases had been lying in deep salt water for 302 years . |
| 3 | Thus if Davies and Dennis had been studying other cities with different political and administrative structures , they would have found different results — as would Saunders and Newton ! |
| 4 | While Jessica and Karen had been helping with the salmon mousse , the dark-eyed alien had been lurking at the gate … |
| 5 | Apparently there 'd been this girl , Spanish or Portuguese I think , and Ollie had been giving her private lessons at his flat , and he thought she fancied him , and he 'd had a couple of Special Brews at the time and thought she was just shy , and then he tried kissing her , and it 's the old , old , sordid story , is n't it ? |
| 6 | And thus , when her father 's ghastly illness had first been diagnosed , and had then continued on its remorseless path , she 'd only discovered — when it was far too late — that she and Ross had been growing steadily and disastrously apart . |
| 7 | She and Jake had been driving back to Lomond View after accompanying Kirsty back to school when Jake had swivelled round in his seat to inform her , |
| 8 | Long before Neil Kinnock let it be known that he had let his membership of Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament lapse , the Labour Party and CND had been growing apart . |
| 9 | Honor had prayed that her mother and Ida had been lying , but Mrs Luke , Lady West 's dressmaker , confirmed the tale . |
| 10 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 11 | He was not , in fact , the first to work with the Longhorns : a blacksmith named Welby living on the borders of Leicestershire and Derbyshire had been attempting systematic improvement of the type using animals from the Derbyshire herd of Sir Thomas Gresley of Drakelow House , Burton-on-Trent ( a herd which by 1720 was already uniform and impressively well matched for shape and colour ) , and a Mr Webster of Canley , near Coventry , bred animals from the same herd with stock from Westmorland and Lancashire . |
| 12 | Hal and Joy had been working at Applecross Cafe for over 10 years . |
| 13 | It was a week after the hurricane , and Stephen had been working non-stop , salvaging coral-stone and tiles from the debris . |
| 14 | It was a few weeks after his marriage and Stephen had been feeling unsure of himself , unsure of life itself . |
| 15 | He had had only one more year to serve before he could have retired into civilian life , and both he and Isobel had been looking forward to this . |
| 16 | The republics were ordered to resume sending their conscripts into the army by July 20 ( which Slovenia and Croatia had been refusing to do , in addition to which the army had been depleted by the desertion of many current young conscripts during the recent conflict ) . |
| 17 | Yet from 10.15p.m. the line bites began and bream had been rolling steadily along the familiar route for almost an hour . |
| 18 | Moran came back from the post office to tell them that Annie and Lizzie had been singing their praises . |
| 19 | Dr Gilbert has pointed out that when the evangelist Hannah More remarked in 1789 on the existence of whole village populations no less estranged from the services of the Church than were heathens , she was belatedly recognising something which Wesley and Whitefield had been proclaiming for decades . |
| 20 | Now he 'd know she and Candy had been discussing him . |
| 21 | Donald and Elinor had been talking for thirty minutes . |
| 22 | Writers , poets and bards had been telling the stories for centuries but it was not until the Victorians that a visual interpretation was recorded and that was essentially romantic and ill-informed . |
| 23 | And then , after he and Owen had been talking for some while , he crooked his finger and called over the boy who had seen |
| 24 | These solutions , which involved old technology , simply applied to the ocean freighter what railroads and truckers had been using for 30 years . |
| 25 | Dominic and Lee had been playing the fool as only young men can . |
| 26 | ( Bronislaw Geremek of the Democratic Union , whom he had asked on Nov. 8 , had admitted failure on Nov. 13 , and Walesa had been seeking since then to find another alternative to Olszewski — see p. 38586 — reportedly preferring the reappointment of Bielecki . ) |
| 27 | Horst and Jurgen had been whistling in the dark . |
| 28 | He was not hurrying , but his attitude suggested he thought Anna and Seb had been talking together for quite long enough . |
| 29 | That was back in the early 1600s and things had been improving gradually ever since . |
| 30 | Borough councillors heard yesterday that 1992 is Car Crime Prevention Year and officers had been looking at ways of getting the message across . |