Example sentences of "that [pron] had been listening [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 2 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 3 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 4 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 5 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |