Example sentences of "had been [v-ing] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been serving in France when he met her , they had married as soon as the Hun had been finished off , and after the honeymoon it had been back to the colours for him and straight over to Ireland . |
| 2 | He had been serving in Cairo when my father was born , and afterwards the family came to live in England , as my grandfather was posted to the Military Academy at Sandhurst as an instructor . |
| 3 | While he had been talking like an estate agent , getting his full value out of the situation , the full embarrassment of it had been dawning on Jenna . |
| 4 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's funny how one associates places with irrelevant things , ’ said Penelope , who had been listening to Sophia 's probings with a kind of fascinated horror . |
| 6 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 7 | But when he had been speaking of Katherine 's children , her opinion of him had begun to change , it sounded as if he did have a genuine sympathy for them and their plight . |
| 8 | Other Administration figures had been calling for Bush to boycott the meeting , on the grounds that the US was coming in for excessive criticism . |
| 9 | Angela , who had been sniffing throughout Sontag 's boastful litany , leaned across to me and whispered : ‘ Would n't you f*****g know ? ’ |
| 10 | He had been boxing in South Africa for three years and , according to boxing historian Gilbert Odd , had remained unbeaten for the first two years ( 1978 , pp.18–19 ) . |
| 11 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 12 | European business development director Peter Scott denied rumours that Pyramid — like its OEM customer Olivetti — had been looking at DEC 's Alpha chip for future developments , but pointed out that much of Pyramid 's SMP technology could be ported to other platforms : it has already licenced its bus and systems software to ICL and Siemens-Nixdorf , and says that further deals will follow . |
| 13 | She had been looking at Mick , but turned slowly and looked at Joe , and smiling slightly said , ‘ Yes ; yes , of course . ’ |
| 14 | The object in question was Franca 's divan bed , the one she had slept on in the upstairs spare room when she had been looking after Patrick . |
| 15 | The nurse who had been looking after Julie escorted her to theatre and stayed with her until she had been introduced to the theatre nurse . |
| 16 | Abie Klugman had long grown used to the taunt — it was Aronson 's stock joke for all of the ten years they had been lodging with Mrs Neumann , and he no longer minded it . |
| 17 | Then Duncan 's son Malcolm , who had been sheltering in England all this time , joined forces with the Earl of Northumbria and , with Edward the Confessor 's approval , invaded Scotland in 1057 . |
| 18 | He had been searching for Morthen , to protect her from his violent half-brother , but she was nowhere to be found . |
| 19 | For the last few hours he had been thinking about James and Kate and the rest of the Mollands , the Salpertons and the Redburns ; and it would not have shocked him if any or all of them who were still alive had turned up unannounced at Number 29 . |
| 20 | She had been thinking of Mark and she had felt cold and lonely , so lonely … |
| 21 | She had been thinking of Jennifer , but she had n't wanted to say as much in front of David . |
| 22 | The IDB president , Enrique Iglesias of Uruguay , had said on April 4 that although Japanese investment had been rising in Chile , Mexico , Brazil and Venezuela , " we see potential for much more " . |
| 23 | Since then he had been farming at Mullu , some fifteen miles outside Addis Ababa . |
| 24 | Even in the 1660s Charles II had been complaining in London that his correspondence with his sister , the Duchess of Orleans , was being regularly opened in the French post , while from about 1748 Louis XV himself began to take a good deal of interest in work of this kind . |
| 25 | Among them was John Ingram , who said that he and others had been drinking with Drew at 1.35pm that lunchtime , and that Drew had mentioned going to Cross Street to get a paper . |
| 26 | The current phase of the debate had been developing since January 1992 when the country 's veteran leader , Deng Xiaoping , had used a tour of the special enterprise zones in southern China as an opportunity to praise the free market as a key mechanism of economic growth [ see p. 38722 ] . |
| 27 | Supported by the local community , he had probably been selected by them , for his appointment by the Company included a note that he had been teaching since Michaelmas 1533 . |
| 28 | When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years . |
| 29 | This was a very different message from that which the British embassy in Washington had been delivering since August . |
| 30 | A stranger had been chatting with Mrs O for some time . |