Example sentences of "[noun] that he [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But then he frowned , because the key that he 'd been expecting did n't appear anywhere in the picture — |
| 6 | I think it was just the final end of a long line of demands that he 'd been making . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | At this time , Miller told Blair that he had been working with Nathanael St André , ‘ the famous anatomist ’ , examining structures of plants and he believed that together they would make some curious discoveries . |
| 10 | I thought that , instead of speaking from his notes that he 'd been speaking from year after year , he was reassessing what he was doing . |
| 11 | He told Heatley that he had been walking along the footpath when the police had made a baton charge . |
| 12 | The affair lasted about three weeks then he broke it off and confessed to Sarah that he had been seeing someone else . |
| 13 | Springsteen was out but there were tell-tale signs that he 'd been ruling the roost and no evidence that he was pining for my return . |
| 14 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 15 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |
| 16 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , the Bill in question goes a good deal wider than just the matters that he has been addressing . |
| 17 | As the hon. Gentleman will know , the recent adjournment is to allow the provisional liquidator to formalise details of the compensation package that he has been negotiating with the Government of Abu Dhabi . |
| 18 | This , combined with the previous episode , created suspicion that he had been malingering to avoid going into action and resulted in his being charged with cowardice . |
| 19 | De Gaulle recognized that the crisis that he had been anticipating since 1946 had finally arrived . |
| 20 | ( Charles also got the message that he was n't going to get the quick slurp of wine at the end of the evening that he had been promising himself . ) |
| 21 | Despite all his dissembling about any new industry alliances over the past few months , Carlo de Benedetti told Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's annual meeting that he had been negotiating with Digital Equipment Corp , and revealed details of the alliance . |
| 22 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 23 | All the while that he had been speaking , he had used the same flat , expressionless tone . |
| 24 | Half of the salary disappeared in mess fees and for the headquarter 's servants , but Sharpe still felt rich , and it was a far better reward than the two shillings and ninepence a day that he had been receiving as a half-pay lieutenant . |
| 25 | ‘ It came out in the court that he had been robbing old ladies … confidence trickster was the word . |
| 26 | The Brigadier set down a fat puppy that he had been holding and squelched towards the yard , driving a dozen pullets before him . |
| 27 | There were 23 other pairs — all younger and all seeming to possess the speed of Linford Christie around the court — and , when my partner greeted me with the news that he had been undergoing physiotherapy for a dodgy back all week , I felt that our interest would be peripheral , to say the least . |
| 28 | And he was glad to have an excuse to put off telling her the news that he 'd been keeping to himself . |
| 29 | Ali had been arrested in April 1990 amidst allegations that he had been plotting to overthrow the government , but was acquitted of terrorism charges in December . |
| 30 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |