Example sentences of "that [pron] had be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 32 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 33 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 34 | It was alleged that at first the railway company denied that they had been travelling on the train at all , and it was indeed suggested that the two children were chance victims of the holocaust and they happened to be wandering by the railway at the time . |
| 35 | A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty . |
| 36 | She was surprised to find that it was still not too late , only lunchtime actually , and she was further surprised when Felipe merely informed the other two that they had been driving in the mountains . |
| 37 | Throughout the trial the brothers had maintained that they had been working as agents for the British Government in Dublin . |
| 38 | 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 . |
| 39 | The Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board went into liquidation last month amid allegations that it had been living beyond its means . |
| 40 | It was raining when Patrick Montgomery Lundy , followed by Jane Bradley , stepped onto Irish soil , and he suddenly remembered his mother telling him that it had been raining on the day she had first come to Ireland , in the May of 1898 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Most damningly of all , Sir Anthony concludes that in 1985 the Department already knew that Barlow Clowes did not maintain proper records , that it had been trading without a licence and that investment watchdogs were worried about the group 's activities . |
| 43 | Labour attempted to pre-empt any jobs package by stressing yesterday that it had been pressing for such measures since before Christmas . |
| 44 | When Tom told his grandmother he was moving out of her house and confessed — because since the accident he had also stopped lying , could not be bothered with prevarication — that he had been busking at stations , she told him she was horrified , she was disappointed in him . |
| 45 | Burun remembered that the man 's name was Yuan , and that he had been staying with Nogai . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | Barry Stewart , defending , said Gregory 's plea was based on the fact that he had been helping in the retention of the items . |
| 48 | If this went on much longer , the real Robert Wilson might emerge — that awful , jelly-like creature that he had been hiding from the world for the last twenty-four years . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | David told her that he had been thinking of working hard to get Amaranth Wilikins selected as the Conservative candidate for Arden in place of Sir Ralph . |
| 51 | 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 . |
| 52 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 53 | And , it 's not a text but perhaps a verse that we could use as a , as a springboard is verse twenty seven , and it says at this point his disciples came and they marvelled that he had been speaking with a woman ! |
| 54 | But in his heart he knew that he had been speaking to a troubled spirit , a spirit that had something terrible to confess . |
| 55 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 56 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 57 | Supported by the local community , he had probably been selected by them , for his appointment by the Company included a note that he had been teaching since Michaelmas 1533 . |
| 58 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 59 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 60 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |