Example sentences of "[noun] [that] [pron] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 2 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 3 | He said in a Commons written reply that there has been mounting concern over the costs of veterinary supervision , with hourly fees reaching £40 . |
| 4 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 5 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
| 6 | He had jolted open a door in her mind that she had been keeping carefully shut . |
| 7 | How many of you have been hearing whispers in your mind that you have been ignoring ? … . |
| 8 | I 'd like to ask the convenor erm how would he have er replied to a young woman who came to me fairly recently whose husband had just left home by mutual agreement , and for the sake of their children and er she said to me after he had gone er that the home was a much happier place now that there was , they had been freed from the tension that they had been going through in a very difficult time . |
| 9 | We 're discussing this morning , and I 'll run briefly through the subjects that we have been discussing this morning for the er , new listeners . |
| 10 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 11 | The mediation between theory and practice that I have been discussing here defines the domain of applied linguistics as this relates to language teaching . |
| 12 | She had n't realized until she was bumping along the road away from the dock that she 'd been shaking like an aspen leaf . |
| 13 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 14 | Well one of the aspects that I have been looking at is erm the impact of technical change on women 's position in the rural areas , and particularly as it concerns women who belong to landless households , or women who belong to small peasant cultivator households . |
| 15 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 16 | Mrs de Crespigny ( ‘ Nora Champion de Crespigny is my full name ’ ) wrote to the effect that she had been passing the lounge at the time , and was a witness , if not to the actual assault , then to Mrs Wilikins 's evident distress . |
| 17 | In all the months that she 'd been going out with Adrian , he 'd never once asked to talk to her like that , in that special way , during school time . |
| 18 | But then he frowned , because the key that he 'd been expecting did n't appear anywhere in the picture — |
| 19 | The fan that she had been waving stopped in mid motion and clicked shut . |
| 20 | The commitments data that we 've been dealing with to date , for the Greater York area , that was supplied by the County Council , was that data that applied to the what we 're now calling the the the the greenbelt area , or was it the area of search as well ? |
| 21 | I think it was just the final end of a long line of demands that he 'd been making . |
| 22 | But certainly there was no objection in principle from the County Council 's Highway Authority and acting as agents for the Department of Transport , as trunk road agent , as a matter of principle , to any of the sectors that we 've been discussing today . |
| 23 | And this recession that we 've been coming out of for so many years now it 's I mean it 's just turned into a bit of a joke ! |
| 24 | Which is the story that you 've been hearing about ? |
| 25 | I said so , and you fobbed me off with the excuse that you 'd been talking about Lilian 's twin . |
| 26 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 27 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 28 | I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his comments about the policies that we have been pursuing and economic prosperity in the Province , where we have seen advances in recent years . |
| 29 | In addition , there are the policies that they have been advocating from the Front Bench this afternoon on the European social action programme , a national statutory minimum wage and trade union law reform , which would make it easier to strike and to have more frequent and more damaging strikes . |
| 30 | She heard Ben come into the market-room , but when the kitchen door did not immediately open , she went over to it and saw him throwing off a wet sack that he had been wearing over his head and shoulders like a cape . |