Sentence examples for had been passing from inspiring English sources

At the same time, poor-quality wines had been passing themselves off as the real thing.

The cleaner was there because Fred Goodwin's mother had been passing by.

The men had been passing through the cars and verbally harassing passengers, the police said.

It also closed the two border crossings through which large quantities of ISAF supplies had been passing.

Ms Dolezal's parents claimed that she had been passing herself off as African-American and was in fact born Caucasian.

Lawmakers had been passing the budget in pieces for several months, amid a stalemate with Gov. David A. Paterson.

I was later told that we had been passing a mountain area that had recently had problems with Islamic terrorists.

Harper, though, had been passing his jail term drawing, selling commissioned pictures to other inmates for a few bucks apiece.

Information gathered by Mr. Lamphere led Mr. Fuchs to confess that he had been passing information to the Soviets.

The government charged American Embassy officials of spying, saying that dissident Venezuelan military officers had been passing on state secrets.

Ms Dolezal's parents claimed that she had been passing herself off as an ethnic minority and was in fact born Caucasian.