Example sentences of "[noun] that had [been] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The black eyes that had been sparkling with good humour a moment before had become hard , almost angry . |
| 2 | Luke was in command and this time instinct told Robyn there would be no withdrawal , no respite from his sexual onslaught , from the tension that had been building between them since the very first moment . |
| 3 | He sang a few bars of it in a lusty baritone that filled the darkness , and oddly enough dispelled some of the tension that had been growing in her . |
| 4 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |
| 5 | The flame that had been burning inside her since their first kiss burst suddenly into flame . |
| 6 | In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so . |
| 7 | In 1949 , at the height of the Cold War , almost exactly ten years after the events themselves , the storm that had been brewing in Aragon 's mind since 1940 finally-burst , with the publication of Les Communistes . |
| 8 | The storm that had been circling in the distance wandered far off , only an occasional casual flicker of light low in the sky showed that somewhere the enormous battle was going on . |
| 9 | A lone man at nearly midnight , wearing a thin jacket in a storm that had been blowing for over an hour … |
| 10 | Children were playing on the green , a wet labrador that had been swimming in the beck was drying out by the village cross , and there was just room amongst the people sat at the table outside the pub for one man and his dog . |
| 11 | The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell . |
| 12 | A senior academic was arrested ‘ for carrying unsigned tracts ’ of a kind that had been circulating throughout the city for a month . |
| 13 | The blue-tit that had been swinging on a bramble , singing " Heigh , ho , go-and-get-another-bit-of-moss , " stopped his acrobatics and flew into the wood . |
| 14 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 15 | In Australia , he had rejuvenated a sport that had been declining for years ; in England , he did exactly the same , leaving people exhilarated by his team 's play wherever they went and creating a great new surge of interest in the game . |
| 16 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Democracy Wall ’ soon became a popular venue for those with grievances and a focus for the dissent that had been growing under the surface for years . |
| 18 | Prices had been driven up 125 per cent since 1914 and the wave of nation-wide strikes and industrial unrest that had been coming to a head on the eve of the great conflict , burst into flame . |
| 19 | One hundred years ago this month a distinguished group of chemists met in Geneva to resolve a crisis that had been developing in organic chemistry . |
| 20 | And the NRPB 's move also emphasized a process that had been continuing for many years . |
| 21 | It solidified the tentative ideas that had been evolving in Whitehall since the drafting of the 1952 Global Strategy paper ; and it was , in many respects , ahead of thinking in Washington , where traditional military orthodoxy still held sway . |
| 22 | She heard the incredulity in his voice and it fuelled the small truth that had been niggling at her , unacknowledged , all day . |
| 23 | The child 's corpse must have been loaded onto some form of transport that had been waiting beyond the yard . |
| 24 | The dramatic shake-ups during those periods do not suddenly appear out of nowhere but should be seen as resulting from the more gradual and less fundamental changes that had been occurring within the old structure 's context over previous decades . |
| 25 | The ‘ piecemeal ’ entry of the former colleges of education and some other colleges which had not previously secured polytechnic status was not quite along lines that the Robbins Committee had proposed , but the picture of higher education that had been developing from the early 1960s was now broader and more complex . |
| 26 | These efforts by the government were given more force through the White Paper Better Schools , which outlined the aims that had been emerging through the previous documents . |
| 27 | As his sword went back for his final sweep the sullen glow that had been growing in the doorway of the Broken Drum flickered , dimmed , and erupted into a roaring fireball that sent the walls billowing outward and carried the roof a hundred feet into the air before bursting through it , in a gout of red-hot tiles . |
| 28 | ‘ Toe-rag ! ’ he muttered , picking up the drink that had been standing on the glass above the labyrinth of numbers and wires . |
| 29 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 30 | With an effort , Miles shook off the lethargy that had been creeping over him since Paula 's death , blinding him to his duties and responsibilities . |