Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] [pron] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 2 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 3 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 4 | Nevertheless , they have demonstrated activity in the visual areas during an imaging task , in the language areas during a verbal task and even , on one - occasion , in the higher visual areas of a schizophrenic patient who subsequently reported that he had been hallucinating . |
| 5 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 6 | Pascoe realized that he 'd been asking questions that Susan had n't answered . |
| 7 | He was also weaving and Adam realized that he had been drinking . |
| 8 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 9 | He asked himself , ‘ What is the direction upon which I have been depending ? ’ , and realized that he had been relying on a sense of what seemed ‘ natural ’ and ‘ right ’ to govern his actions . |
| 10 | Sean was the first man who ever made love to her , and Ruth had thought she loved him too , but it was not a happy marriage and when Sean was killed in France , just before the Armistice was signed , she realised that she had been denying her true feelings for years . |
| 11 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
| 12 | Miguel had been watching her , and she realised that she had been talking far too freely , and that she could n't see what he was thinking because of those dark glasses . |
| 13 | When we talked about it at length , I realised that I 'd been using clothes to buoy myself up emotionally , ever since my father left when I was 10 . |
| 14 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 15 | The 18-year-old who caused the accident admitted that he 'd been driving recklessly . |
| 16 | A big farmer admitted that he had been selling cotton stalks to agricultural labourers , a new trend in the region . |
| 17 | With an instant return to sweet reasonableness , Andrée said , ‘ Admitted that I 've been trying to seduce you , does n't that only go to show how desperate I am to get my way ? |
| 18 | He revealed that he 'd been intending to do an act at the Easter Fete but had abandoned it because he 'd decided it was a load of rubbish . |
| 19 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 20 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 21 | At one minute it seemed that he had been having a fine old dream about Humans and banquets and the Frost Giantess frying on a spit . |
| 22 | Since the embers were cool , Tallis imagined that she had been sitting there for hours . |
| 23 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 24 | The authorities claimed that they had been living illegally on land which had been allocated to others , in Khartoum suburbs such as Karmuta where large numbers of mud-brick houses had reportedly now been vacated and then destroyed by bulldozers . |
| 25 | Nabiyev , however , claimed that he had been touring the region to meet the population after recent mudslide disasters . |
| 26 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 27 | Sinews bunched and moved under his skin like oiled spaghetti ; Carson guessed that he 'd been posing and flexing in front of a mirror . |
| 28 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 29 | She guessed that he had been standing at the window or listening for the sound of her key in the lock . |
| 30 | The publican replied that he 'd been talking to his dog . |