Example sentences of "[noun pl] [that] [pron] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 2 | In her haste to get away , she must have bundled up the documents and ledgers that she had been working on and brought them back with her . |
| 3 | Two minutes later she was tapping on his office door , clutching to her bosom the file of notes and sketches that she had been working on with such enthusiasm all week . |
| 4 | He knew he had to turn his back on Crevecoeur , dreading the day he would see physical signs that SHe had been working . |
| 5 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 6 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |
| 7 | It was the directions that I had been giving them that I now began to consider . |
| 8 | The Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board went into liquidation last month amid allegations that it had been living beyond its means . |
| 9 | Ali had been arrested in April 1990 amidst allegations that he had been plotting to overthrow the government , but was acquitted of terrorism charges in December . |
| 10 | The Commission subsequently issued an interim measures decision which , amongst other things , required Akzo 's UK subsidiary to return to the profit levels that it had been applying before the alleged threats were made and implemented . |
| 11 | Rafiq , for example , who had not changed out of the grubby overalls that he had been wearing on the day of Robert 's interview , seemed to spend most of his time painting the walls of his classroom . |
| 12 | The hijackers , who told reporters that they had been attempting to gain publicity for the pro-democracy cause in Myanma , pleaded guilty in Bangkok Criminal Court on Jan. 30 , 1990 . |
| 13 | Terry had written out a very detailed plan for a farm-school project for juvenile offenders that he had been working on for almost two years . |
| 14 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
| 15 | Sirhan was immediately arrested , and apparently confessed to his interrogators that he had been acting on his own to avenge the Haram al-Sharif massacre . |
| 16 | Earlier this month Bear Stearns , the New York investment bank , distributed 10 million shares that it had been holding as part of a deferred payment plan . |
| 17 | Erm and so therefore er they , they knew tools that they had been using since the period of the war , erm were gradually being overtaken by the new types of ceramic tools . |
| 18 | In a recent South African trial resulting from a rail accident , the drivers concerned denied responsibility on the grounds that they had been working compulsory 18-hour shifts . |
| 19 | Why hide from him the facts that she had been coming since ? |
| 20 | It gave her great qualms that it had been lying in the hall since the morning 's post , as if it had an atmosphere capable of permeating the whole house . |