Sentence examples for had been surrounding from inspiring English sources
The army, she said, had been surrounding villages and cities and cutting off electricity, water and food, before bombarding the town.
Shortly afterward, the crowd that had been surrounding the governor fell away; it seemed that Mr. Silver was leading the governor back to the stage.
"I think that private moment between the two of us gave us a bit of a break from being so tentative towards each other as a result of some of the media hype that had been surrounding us".
Strategists on both sides agreed that Hurricane Sandy had at the very least interrupted Mr. Romney's late-stage prosecution of Mr. Obama in a way that may have stunted the sense of upward movement that had been surrounding his campaign.
The opposition Web site Saham News said that members of the Basij militia, which is loyal to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had been surrounding Mr. Karroubi's house for days.
Algerian soldiers had been surrounding the facility near In Amenas that kidnappers occupied on Wednesday.
