Example sentences of "had [adv] be [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was as though she had secretly been waiting all evening for this moment , for this invitation to walk along the beach with him . |
| 2 | In the 1940s an interest in genetic studies came to the fore , although several German investigators had already been following this line for some years . |
| 3 | I had not been counting own goals for more than a few minutes when I heard extraordinary sounds coming from my wardrobe . |
| 4 | If I had not been chasing that gipsy woman I could have gone to the party and chased Leila . ’ |
| 5 | Sigsworth had not been receiving any medication at the hospital to help him over his withdrawal . |
| 6 | She had not been receiving any fertility treatment and it was only after a routine scan that all was revealed . |
| 7 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
| 8 | If Rosemary had not been suffering any stress that night , though , it was not long before the situation which had begun with Travis Hepwood became stressful . |
| 9 | But that was less surprising than that somebody had still been issuing such certificates in the chaos that had been Germany , just three weeks before the final surrender . |
| 10 | Surely he had n't been using that tone with her a moment ago ? |
| 11 | ‘ You told me you had n't been using any different chemicals , Bob . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ If she had n't been screaming all that nonsense at the top of her voice , it would never have happened . |
| 13 | But no , she had n't been wearing that dress , of course she had n't . |
| 14 | He had been wanting reassurance for a long time and he had n't been getting any . |
| 15 | But if , if he had n't been doing that |
| 16 | Well at least she 's , he had n't been doing enough work somehow ! |
| 17 | She had n't been paying much attention to the journey , and did n't have any idea of where they were ; the archway led into a long courtyard with a cobbled surface and small , squeezed-in houses to either side . |
| 18 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 19 | She knew he had n't been paying any attention to the play . |
| 20 | ‘ I knew you had n't been paying any attention . |
| 21 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
| 22 | The American military had indeed been giving some some tentative thought to the use of atomic weapons in response to the Chinese victories in Korea . |
| 23 | Billy had certainly been making some enquiries but he had been misinformed , Danny thought . |