Example sentences of "[v-ing] that [noun] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mitra attacked a secret visit by Ramos to Switzerland in mid-February , hinting that Ramos had been seeking foreign funds for his campaign . |
| 2 | ‘ When we were waiting to be questioned by the police , Doug Wilson was saying that Rodney had been making a play for Angy and hinting that he might have got somewhere . ’ |
| 3 | Assuming that Short had been playing it straight , then there remained the question of who stood to lose if Pendero won . |
| 4 | Judging that Miller had been snoring long enough , he shook him till he woke , and made him drive to Turnhouse . |
| 5 | Fleury was quite wrong in thinking that Miriam had been nourishing amorous ambitions as far as the Collector was concerned ; on the contrary , throughout the siege she had taken great pains not to allow her feelings to attach themselves to any individual man . |