Example sentences of "that [noun] had been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | While the specialist was examining her legs , Janet mentioned that Lisa had been suffering from aches in her neck . |
| 2 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour . |
| 3 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour and asked that Dodman be sent for psychiatric help . |
| 4 | The trial , on 4 February , heard that Shiloh had been running in a race at Carfin dog track in August last year when he broke his leg . |
| 5 | But he had barely been gone for an hour when there came the signal that Thorfinn had been waiting for . |
| 6 | He was conscious that Therese had been engaging in ‘ business ’ but had n't appreciated how it had looked from the front until it was too late to do anything about it . |
| 7 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 8 | ( We can see how the new Aeschylean note that Nietzsche had been sounding since his lectures of 1870 was , like much else , in harmony with Wagner 's aspiration . ) |
| 9 | It had never occurred to her that Christopher had been thinking of these things too . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The usher explained that Eva had been working in Africa and was now principal of an international college . |
| 12 | Western reports said that troops had been massing in the region since December 1990 . |
| 13 | She also knew that Bertie had been lying to her over ‘ discontinuing ’ the post . |
| 14 | Her feeling was that Meryl had been waiting for someone … |
| 15 | On the evidence before the learned judge , it was plain that Wickes had been trading on Sundays and intended to continue doing so in the future unless restrained by the court ; and it was common ground between the parties that Wickes ' Sunday trading was in breach of section 47 unless that section had been rendered ineffective by article 30 of the Treaty . |
| 16 | I tried to look pleased when she told me that Prentice had been ringing at half-hourly intervals since mid-afternoon and had left a multiple-choice list of numbers where I could get him that evening . |
| 17 | Then Waddell 's alibi , Donald Carmichael , who had said at Meehan 's trial that Waddell had been staying with him on the night of the murder , now admitted this was a lie . |
| 18 | It was widely known , however , that China had been pressing for a Japanese imperial visit for some time as a means of marking a further stage in the country 's rehabilitation from the diplomatic isolation which had followed the Tiananmen Square massacre . |
| 19 | Puzzling — since it seemed that Yorke had been listening to information he 'd specifically asked for . |
| 20 | Palmer had noticed that something was wrong with the water , even before taking the sample , and volunteered the opinion ( subsequently confirmed ) that cattle had been drinking in it upstream . |
| 21 | I am convinced that stuff had been accumulating for many years in this cellar and that Ernest Griffiths had no idea what was in there . |
| 22 | The court was told that Dawtrey had been racing against the other Metro shortly before the crash in the village of Nuneham Courtenay , where there is a 40mph restriction . |
| 23 | He put aside being lonely for a moment , and realized that hunger had been waiting for an opportunity to make-itself felt . |
| 24 | The sensible thing would have been to say that Crabb had been diving in the area to test out equipment and had got into difficulties , surfaced near the Russian ships and then drowned . |
| 25 | The only systematic disentanglement from corporatist theorizing and policy analysis of the administrative component was by R. E. Pahl and J. T. Winkler , writing at a time when it seemed that Britain had been developing in the direction of corporatism for the previous fifteen years and was experiencing sectoral planning , planning agreements and statutory or voluntary controls over prices , profit margins , dividends , wages , rents and the movement of capital . |
| 26 | — If he got the answers he expected , that Rhoda had kept William Egan 's money in some hiding place and that Roxie had been looking after her brother 's moneybags , and that all three women had been spending what they were supposed to be hoarding , then he knew what was causing the atmosphere he had picked up at Roxie 's house . |
| 27 | A brain scan showed extensive bleeding around the brain , and the specialists concluded that Guy had been suffering from internal bleeding since his accident on the previous day . |
| 28 | There was the sudden roar of a car engine and a screech of tyres and the red car that Stuart had been looking at sped forward and stopped at the entrance with its passenger door swinging open . |
| 29 | Sure enough , next day saw a procession , only Lamb and Hussain passing thirty , although Smith batted for an hour with a broken finger and it was revealed that Hussain had been playing for five weeks with a broken bone in his wrist and Lamb had a cracked elbow . |
| 30 | It was considered that Sendero had been profiting from the rivalry between the Army and police in the region as to who should spearhead the US-backed campaign against drug trafficking . |