Example sentences of "[noun] that had [been] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Furthermore , when Joseph explained to his brothers the purposes of God that had been running through the events they had been caught up in , he used terms recalling the promises of Genesis 12 : ‘ … you meant evil against me ; but God meant it for good , to bring it about that many people should be kept alive , as they are today ’ ( 50.20 ; see , too , 45.4–11 ) . |
| 32 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 33 | As the sound was repeated again and again the tears that had been brimming in Lan 's eyes spurted down her cheeks , and beside her Tam listened rigid with horror , waiting for the sound of his brother 's wailing to begin . |
| 34 | There was a great fear of the fickleness of audiences , an anxiety that the craze would die and that in particular movies would lose their fascination for precisely those sections of society that had been going to them longest . |
| 35 | European overlordship , however , was to prove incompatible with the notions of Arab nationalism that had been growing since the end of the nineteenth century ; and it was no surprise that this would become apparent first in the most advanced country in the region , Egypt . |
| 36 | That and the fact that she had managed to stir all those self-doubts that had been hovering at the back of her mind . |
| 37 | The vote of no confidence was a final humiliation for a government that had been clinging to office . |
| 38 | The scope for genuinely unilateral action was much greater in the political–military realm , especially once the huge army that had been fighting in Algeria had been repatriated and re-equipped . |
| 39 | They were on the dusty painted dresser , on the shelves , and on a tin tray before a freckled old mirror that had been hanging in the bathroom . |
| 40 | I felt this was a chance for me to put to rest one way or another this thing that had been nagging at me for such a long time . ’ |
| 41 | They gave him a letter that had been waiting for his arrival . |
| 42 | I remember one bloke who was part of a working class West London crowd that had been coming into the shop since the early days . |
| 43 | SALT I , the most important of these , placed limits on the further construction of intercontinental nuclear weapon systems by both sides ; it was intended to remain in force for five years or until superseded by a more comprehensive agreement , and it was the first real fruit of negotiations that had been proceeding since the late 1960s . |
| 44 | Shaking off the nostalgia that threatened to overwhelm her , she went to the window and threw it open , startling a tiny robin that had been resting on the sill . |
| 45 | There was a throbbing urgency developing in the way they touched , a desperation in their kisses ; the yearning for fulfilment that had been growing in her since this man had first taken her was now a scream deep inside her , aching for him , crying for him , sobbing for him . |
| 46 | The dawn ride alone with Jacques Devraux through the breathtaking natural beauty of the tropical forest had first heightened the pleasurable feeling of pent-up excitement that had been growing within her in recent days , then eventually left her feeling tense and on edge . |
| 47 | A hinge that had been digging into his stomach freed itself . |
| 48 | He began to whistle a tune that had been dancing through his head ever since he left the pub : |
| 49 | It was sexual excitement — an element that had been missing from her life for too long . |
| 50 | Recently , in fact , with only bathroom tissue , hand soap and water , I cleaned up an acrylic painting that had been hanging in a office for 24 years . |