Example sentences of "[noun] they had been [v-ing] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Later that evening they had been sitting in a restaurant and Maggie had looked at Tom and said , her delicate face and long neck almost visibly aquiver with pleasure , |
| 2 | A frisson of disbelief and unease passed though the male patrons as the woman they had been watching in simulated copulation on the screen materialised in the flesh before their very eyes . |
| 3 | In the first year of the new tour , Len Owen , then tournament director for the Benson and Hedges tournament at Wembley , revealed that they were expecting to have to pay $500,000 in appearance money , in addition to the same amount they had been offering in prize money when they were a protected event . |
| 4 | Here is a moment when the danger to the dismasted Hurrying Angel becomes apparent to the exhausted crew as the light grows and they can view the sea they had been fighting in the dark : |
| 5 | He had been sending in listings , even reports , on the gigs they had been running in Birmingham . |