Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] on [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But however reasonable , nothing was as cheap as free accommodation , and she had been counting on these next six months to build up a bank balance . |
| 2 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |
| 3 | ‘ Having a fling with Barbs is n't faithlessness , ’ said Constance , who had been concentrating on this very matter for her own reasons . |
| 4 | Anne had been dwelling on this , even as the queen-dowager , together with the prince , princesses and Joan , waited with a mixture of feelings — hope , doubt , impatience and irritation — for her reply . |
| 5 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 6 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 7 | The voices had been going on all evening . |
| 8 | The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell . |
| 9 | The seething had been going on more or less from the time Taylor took over as manager . |