Example sentences of "had be [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of the breakfasters , who had been gazing on with fascination , returned also to their newspapers , with the exception of Fishbane , on whom Gooseneck now turned . |
| 2 | The farmer whose land they had been riding on had looked up his old racing programmes and had found the Newbury card listing the horse he said Bones reminded him of . |
| 3 | He handed her her jacket , which had been hanging on the back of her chair . |
| 4 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 5 | Rather embarrassed that he had waited … as if he had been hanging on … shy , although it could not be the surroundings , he very gratefully accepted the offer of claret , knew it to be a good one and said so … did not know quite what to say … he had found a peculiar empathy grow between himself and this handsome , strong , elegant , privileged man of the world when they had been in the little hill church of St Kentigern 's . |
| 6 | In their defence the party leadership could argue that they had been hampered by the lack of a parliamentary majority ; the choice had been hanging on by the skin of one 's teeth or of giving up and holding an election in the face of adverse opinion polls . |
| 7 | I 'd almost fallen asleep while Uncle Hamish had been droning on . |
| 8 | Early on Monday evening Wickham tossed the papers he had been scanning on to the desk and stood up . |
| 9 | To Jonjo O'Neill , who a moment earlier had been plugging on towards a certain third place , this sign of weakness in Wayward Lad 's finishing effort offered remote but renewed hope : ‘ I suddenly saw he was tiring , ’ he reported later , ‘ and so did she . ’ |
| 10 | Then they had been sinking on to the bed and , between kisses and caresses , peeling the clothes hungrily from one another , until at last they lay naked , side by side . |
| 11 | However , the FoE did welcome a number of proposals they had been campaigning on for some time . |
| 12 | Eventually the pair connected , and Knuckles presented Owens with a track he had been working on with Japanese musician Satoshi Tomii . |
| 13 | She could remember Hamlet and the dates of important battles in the Revolutionary War and the names of Disney 's Seven Dwarfs and the telephone numbers of old boyfriends and the faces of people she had known in college but not seen in years and the deadlines for the three pieces she had been working on … |
| 14 | However , when the production shifted back to Los Angeles , the day before shooting started , he lost the kind of gravelly voice he had been working on . |
| 15 | Then , the following week , the essay on Jane Eyre she had been working on for her English class disappeared from her desk . |
| 16 | Terry had written out a very detailed plan for a farm-school project for juvenile offenders that he had been working on for almost two years . |
| 17 | They ended up laughing about that , but it was the uneasy laughter of desperation and displacement , and all they could do after that was finish the whisky and have the joint Rory had been working on , and it was almost a relief when Fergus was sick as a dog out of the window , hanging out barfing onto the slates and into the guttering while Rory tried to clean the plaster off the top bunk and stowed the guns out of harm 's way . |
| 18 | She knew more about The Hell Fire Club ; she was certain that was what her husband had been working on . |
| 19 | She looked at the layout she had been working on . |
| 20 | Then she convinced him he was to say no more about leaving and get back to the story he had been working on when the row blew up . |
| 21 | ‘ He said he 'd see you today , ’ Dana said , perching on the edge of Claudia 's desk , scattering the designs she had been working on , much to her annoyance . |
| 22 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 23 | Maeve sat crouched over a table using a pool of light from a huge candelabra to stab furiously with her needle at a piece of embroidery she had been working on for years . |
| 24 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 25 | ‘ Do n't you know what time — ’ she began , but already , somehow , he had moved past her into the dimly lit office and was standing confidently at her drawing-board , casually eyeing the plan that she had been working on . |
| 26 | On his desk was a map of the Fairfax property which he had been working on when he had the telephone call from the owner telling him that he was cancelling all the arrangements . |
| 27 | Mr Michael Fallon , who is also schools minister , said it was an historic change which he had been working on with Catholic bishops since November . |
| 28 | ‘ This had been going on almost all the time since yesterday , with two German counter attacks on our positions . ’ |
| 29 | Ramped Craft Logistic and mexeflote rafts had been arriving regularly throughout the night , continuing the build-up of vehicles and ammunition Which had been going on for the past two days . |
| 30 | It was not until the bombing had been going on for almost a week that the Iraqi foreign minister issued a protest . |