Sentence examples for had been committing from inspiring English sources

"The people we prosecute had been committing their crimes in the Hispanic neighborhoods where they lived," Mr. Vega said.

Last Thursday the US secretary of state John Kerry said that Islamic State had been committing genocide against Yazidis, Christians and Shia Muslims.

Page A14 CHINA PUSHES CRITICS INTO HOSPITALS A report published by a state-owned Chinese newspaper said that public security officials in the city of Xintai, in Shandong Province, had been committing residents who challenged the authorities to psychiatric hospitals.

I confess that I had been committing thought crimes against the physician who ordered the scan, Mark Fialk, wondering if it was an example of out-of-control testing — and now I felt that Dr. Fialk might have saved my life.

Ortiz had two sons he had been using for waste collection and five daughters he had been committing incest with.

The women collected a burial society payout, a type of life insurance, on each death, and it was eventually found that they had been committing murders using arsenic to obtain the insurance money.

No crime had been committed".

Police later said no offence had been committed.

Indeed, countless crimes had been committed in the attempt.

No one alleged a crime had been committed.

It was really as if some crime had been committed.