Example sentences of "[be] [that] [pron] had [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A second and earlier poem Moliant Cadwallon ( ‘ In Praise of Cadwallon ’ ) , possibly by Cadwallon 's bard , Afan Ferddig , celebrates Cadwallon 's victorious progress against Eadwine ‘ the deceitful ’ after his return from Ireland , where he may have been in exile , though an alternative possibility is that he had been gathering reinforcements there . |
| 2 | What proved to be the trouble was that they had been munching handfuls of powdered soap . |
| 3 | Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to . |
| 4 | Her boast was that she had been dancing at every RAF and American air force station within a 30-mile radius , and that she would n't look at any male with a rank lower than Squadron Leader or the American equivalent . |
| 5 | I felt that way myself — the difference was that he had been living longer . |
| 6 | His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant . |
| 7 | His excuse was that he had been praying . |