Sentence examples for had been cracking from inspiring English sources

But even without that law, the previously lenient Emirati authorities had been cracking down.

A spokesman said the actor had had been "cracking jokes to the last".

The authorities had been cracking down on the opposition for several months, jailing 23 prominent dissidents in September.

The concrete pillar that collapsed the day before had been cracking, and was reinforced with metal supports.

School started on Sept. 1, and Zvonareva said she had been cracking her books on statistics and finances between her matches.

A half-dozen or so randomly selected bar owners in Sanlitun said the other evening that the police had been cracking down, and that the bar owners had to meet with them every couple of days.

The window had been cracked, she said.

Now the hard little man had been cracked open.

In response to a frothy announcement that the code had been cracked, he had tweeted, "Nah".

Abby told me some of her teeth had been cracked by her husband's fist.

"He had been cracked open, and he was filling back up".