Example sentences of "that [noun] had been [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Kochen maintained that DEC had been taking a worldwide census of ‘ hundreds of customers ’ recently to ascertain whether OSF/1-on-MIPS was a viable policy . |
| 2 | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney . |
| 3 | Mr Hirst added that Hilton had been discussing the possibility of moving into India and had already evaluated properties in Delhi and Bombay with the aim of a management contract with a small amount of equity . |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 5 | On May 7 the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry claimed that Armenia had been waging an undeclared war on Azerbaijan , and that in over 300 cross-border attacks since the beginning of the year a total of 61 Azerbaijanis had been killed . |
| 6 | He needed to think , because although he was sure that Andrus had been speaking the truth , and that he had not deliberately incited Zoser to kill , he still felt puzzled . |
| 7 | When I did get to the bike I saw it was virtually in pieces and realised that Darren had been attempting the job himself . |
| 8 | Amy , 42 , took a different tack when she found that Joe had been leading a double life for 18 months , holed up with a ravishing ex-model 15 years her junior while she believed he was ‘ opening up new markets ’ in Middle Europe . |
| 9 | However , the Court of Apothecaries took the view that Miller had been paying the increased rent for some years and declined to sanction the proposed allowance . |
| 10 | So cold was the Cold War that America had been boycotting the import even of Soviet crab meat , let alone a live and wily Soviet leader . |
| 11 | Lita Dowell , prosecuting , said that Thomas had been having an affair with Mrs Dean for four months before the attack in August . |