Example sentences of "had be [v-ing] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps she had been taking too little care , or perhaps it was the strain of the bereavement coming out in physical symptoms . |
| 2 | She had been listening slightly spellbound to this smooth recital , and now she said , ‘ How far can you go ? ’ |
| 3 | It was noticeably warm , as if it had been hiding somewhere snug . |
| 4 | Well if he was there and you came along well that 's two people , so it 's not that secluded , okay , so we have to look on the positive side , if at the end of the day you 're going to get to a situation where , okay , you can see that the ordinary erm true blue course of events is just not gon na work , then it 's down to you , you have then got to make up your own mind what you 're going to do for the casualty and your own safety , okay , if somebody had been bleeding that long and you could n't of got help for them , what would your priority now probably be ? |
| 5 | ‘ In the concreted yard at the back of the flats at Water Eaton Road stood a light-weight , rubber-wheeled , aluminium wheelbarrow which one of the maintenance men had been using earlier that day . |
| 6 | The organization had started well enough , projected from the springboard of the prosperous 1970s , although the 1979–80 price explosion had an unexpectedly severe impact on oil demand , which had been looking particularly promising as 1979 was drawing to a close . |
| 7 | Robin-Anne , who had been looking very apprehensive , seemed to go aboard Wavebreaker rather unwillingly . |
| 8 | Beth had been surprised to know that Cissie herself had been thinking along those very same lines , and it only told her that she was right about Maisie 's children — they were growing up fast . |
| 9 | In fact , she had been thinking along those lines herself . |
| 10 | It lent to his words an air of impressive finality , as if he had been thinking out each point for the first time and had come to a halt . |
| 11 | At the next meeting , Mr E almost casually mentioned that he had been trying out one or two of last week 's ideas and that Dave seemed quite responsive to him this week . |
| 12 | they said they had been bringing in one of their nets , which had seemed very heavy . |
| 13 | For many years our shore-based rummage crews had been picking up increasing quantities of drugs from routine searches of merchant vessels within the ports , but often these smuggling attempts were " one off " jobs by crew members . |
| 14 | The beer he had been drinking steadily all day was now weighing heavily on his stomach . |
| 15 | Hindley Earnshaw should have been at Catherine 's burial yesterday , but he had been drinking so much that he could n't go . |
| 16 | The party set off downstream along the river bank and Rostov concentrated on making it look as if he had been riding bareback all his life . |
| 17 | There , among the junk mail and bills delivered while she had been riding out first lot , was an envelope written in a careful , neat hand . |
| 18 | The magazine had been consuming too much of his time even though , ideally , he ought to have been devoting more to it . |
| 19 | He had been saving as much as possible from the grant in the hope of amassing a small sum which would tide him over until he could find a local job . |
| 20 | He had declined an invitation to dinner , as the stabbing pains in his head had been getting steadily worse throughout the day . |
| 21 | The pressure which had been building up all weekend was nearing some sort of explosion . |
| 22 | For eight years at least , the RHA had been considering simply shifting resources to the community as the natural retraction of the hospitals allowed . |
| 23 | This time they had to round up more horses which had been living almost wild . |
| 24 | Basically er the broad overall description would be to compensate for the conditions that the tenants had been living in prior to the move . |
| 25 | Olive had been expecting so many horrors that hearing the question she almost laughed with relief . |
| 26 | Mr Haynes explained that the earlier surge in borrowings , which had peaked at £5.2m in December 1990 , had arisen because the company had been publishing too many books on the general publishing side ( as opposed to the car and motor cycle manuals which are Haynes ' core activity ) . |
| 27 | Like most defectors , Lyalin was suffering from delusions of grandeur and it was hard to judge whether he had been reading too much of Pincher 's material or books by Le Queux dating from the turn of the century . |
| 28 | Bernice decided that Ell had been watching too many films . |
| 29 | Since Adam had been monopolising practically all her time , she could n't protest her dislike of him too vehemently . |
| 30 | They had been conversing easily all afternoon . |