Example sentences of "[pron] that [noun] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tried to look pleased when she told me that Prentice had been ringing at half-hourly intervals since mid-afternoon and had left a multiple-choice list of numbers where I could get him that evening . |
| 2 | as if to refute everything that Celia had been thinking , Dr Shalcross suddenly said , ‘ Many women fight shy of motherhood for one reason or another . |
| 3 | The involvement of students was something that Owen had been hoping to avoid . |
| 4 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 5 | It had never occurred to her that Christopher had been thinking of these things too . |