Example sentences of "that [pron] had been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age .
2	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 .
3	Yes sir he told me that er would know because they ha had been together in prison and that he also had information that they had been planning armed robberies together .
4	They acknowledged only that they had been playing loud music and having innocent fun .
5	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 .
6	Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart .
7	‘ It came out in the court that he had been robbing old ladies … confidence trickster was the word .
8	On closer questioning it was found that he had been harbouring strong transsexual feelings for some while and that the injury resulted from an urge to initiate a sex change .
9	The master at this time , J.W. , was in trouble when it was reported that he had been boarding some of the officers and two of their relatives in his own apartments under a private arrangement .
10	I was aware that he had been focusing all his will on this resolve and that to let go now would be an appalling submission .
11	It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away .
12	Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer .

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