Example sentences of "be that [noun] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 2 | The most damning fact of all is that Seb had been drinking . |
| 3 | I think what happened was that Nick had been hanging around waiting to get hold of her . |
| 4 | I do n't know how long it was that things had been going badly for them but I do know there were problems . |
| 5 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 6 | Her feeling was that Meryl had been waiting for someone … |