Example sentences of "had [been] [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been swinging in and out of consciousness for several days . |
| 2 | I put the phone down , wondering how many people had been listening in on the extensions , and went back into my room . |
| 3 | He had been listening in . |
| 4 | Some hours later , after a torrential thunderstorm , the wriggling foot , that had been kicking in very strange places , finally broke through and I soke at five in the morning with a warm , wet feeling . |
| 5 | they said they had been bringing in one of their nets , which had seemed very heavy . |
| 6 | The Feldwebel came back , and the man who had been filling in the new form turned round in his chair and looked at me . |
| 7 | Naughtie had been filling in time . |
| 8 | He told Ballater that someone had been breaking in . |
| 9 | Reveille for the remainder was at 0600 , as the transit camp we had been living in for the fortnight had to be handed over to the next inhabitants spick and span . |
| 10 | Basically er the broad overall description would be to compensate for the conditions that the tenants had been living in prior to the move . |
| 11 | Annie had been slotting in and out of the discussion , focusing as much on Sheila as on her desire to make a logical sense out of the argument . |
| 12 | For the last hour between half-a-million and a million starlings — impossible to estimate accurately — had been flying in from every direction . |
| 13 | Wilde , she argued , was in a state of insanity owing to the shock to his self-esteem of prison , ‘ and the exposure of the abnormal and filthy practises which he had been indulging in with stable boys ’ . |
| 14 | When the surgeon had departed , Morse turned with unwarranted ferocity upon his ill-used sergeant : ‘ You told me , Lewis , that Mr Eddie bloody Stratton had been missing in quite extraordinarily suspicious circumstances since early afternoon , and that a frenetically distraught Ashenden had rung you up — ’ |
| 15 | The signal is dated 1 August 1942 and states that a stream of messages had been coming in from Stirling in the desert regarding the shipment of supplies by Bombays for delivery on 4 August . |
| 16 | People from outside the college had been coming in freely , causing trouble , stealing and even beating students . |
| 17 | But I did discover where they had been coming in — through the stable and into the wall — and where they had resided when I pulled down the ceiling lathes in the dairy and a load of old nests and rat droppings fell on to my head . |
| 18 | His mum , Jacqueline , of Cardigan , said : ‘ When I bent down I could see that the metal mesh had been cutting in to his scalp . ’ |
| 19 | Thierse replaced Markus Meckel , the Foreign Minister , who had been standing in since the March resignation of Ibrahim Böhme [ see p. 37302 ] . |
| 20 | Thierse replaced Markus Meckel , the then Foreign Minister , who had been standing in since the March resignation of Ibrahim Böhme [ see p. 37302 ] . |
| 21 | Howard leapt to his feet from the chair he had been sitting in . |
| 22 | The moon had been shining in , silvering everything with its ghostly light , when Roman had made love to her . |