Example sentences of "people had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people had been nursing faint hopes that the exhibition , which took Stephanie Barron five years to assemble , might be transferred to Berlin after Washington . |
| 2 | of the people had been smoking at the meeting . |
| 3 | People had been telling him he had the wrong attitude since he was potty trained . |
| 4 | For months and months people had been telling nomes what to do . |
| 5 | er it was sold out , you know , and everybody , and people had been ringing up thanking them and everything . |
| 6 | The whole thing went undiscussed throughout 1982 , though people had been trying to have it discussed since they came back from their holidays in 1981 . ’ |
| 7 | Living Dead and Terminator slippers — people had been queuing for them for God 's sake — were being returned unused to the shops and credit notes cashed in for balls of wool and packets of scraperboard . |
| 8 | People had been wandering past us and paying the man in the booth in the white lodge and I 'd been envying them opening their purses and their wallets and shelling out all that money . |
| 9 | I put the phone down , wondering how many people had been listening in on the extensions , and went back into my room . |
| 10 | For months Weatherbury people had been discussing the party that Mr Boldwood was going to give just before Christmas , and now the day had finally arrived . |
| 11 | People had been reading him , recommending the books to each other , lending them . ’ |
| 12 | more than seemed to be indicated in the figures that we 've got , because Buck 's figures for the extent of supplementary income are I know they 're significant but they 're not enough to the kinds of levels people had been living at . |
| 13 | People had been staging revolutions without a great deal of success over the years and it was seventy percent of the people who were disadvantaged was n't it ? |
| 14 | Erm and people had been paying insurance i it changed then cos some of the farmers could go on their pension they 'd been paying this new scheme you see . |
| 15 | Turning to the dramatic developments in East European countries , the Labour leader warned that the taste of freedom their people had been yearning for would turn sour unless they gained material advancement . |
| 16 | Even while the behaviourist debate had been raging , people had been studying emotion . |
| 17 | She got a , I think she got a bit of a shock you know she actually probably thought she was better than she was and a lot of people had been giving her a lot of pats on the back and I tell you where half of that emanated from was down the corridor . |
| 18 | It was only on the second and third day after the tragedy that the family slowly began to realise how many other people had been sitting around in shocked disbelief at the news . |
| 19 | The two young people had been sitting in silence for most of the time Nahum had been upstairs , Seb gazing morosely into the fire and Carrie reading at the kitchen table . |
| 20 | People had been saying that once the war was over , things would change . |
| 21 | Other people had been asking about Vecchi , too . |
| 22 | ‘ These people had been fighting against their own country , against Marshal Tito who had been recognised as an ally by the British Government , ’ Lord Aldington said . |
| 23 | People had been waiting for years for freedom ‘ and they 've now had enough ’ . |
| 24 | The book was , apparently , the kind of tale for which all young people had been waiting and its heavy sales in the United States had amazed him ; the first hardcover edition had sold fast enough to surprise even his capable publisher . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend may remember that , in 1980 , a quarter of a million people had been waiting for more than two months for telephones to be connected . |
| 26 | At the end of September 143 people had been waiting more than a year . |