Example sentences of "[noun] have [been] [v-ing] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding . |
| 2 | It was a shirt exactly like the one her singer had been wearing that night , as he swaggered among the women , and whispered ‘ Me quieres ? ’ to them all . |
| 3 | During the last decade evidence has been accumulating that fluid secretion in the small intestine is often evoked via stimulation of the enteric nervous system ( ENS ) . |
| 4 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 5 | The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years . |
| 6 | Pike was pointing to the grass near to where Mr Marr had been sitting that night . |
| 7 | Earl Grey was so English , so sedate , and maybe Ilsa had been living that way for fifty years . |
| 8 | This idea of a running commentary is shown on pg 59 where he tells the reader what various characters of the play have been doing that day . |