Example sentences of "that [pers pn] had been [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 2 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 3 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 4 | Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to . |
| 5 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 6 | But in his heart he knew that he had been speaking to a troubled spirit , a spirit that had something terrible to confess . |
| 7 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 8 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 9 | When she began to protest , he claimed he was getting help on an out-patient basis , and that he had been going to AA . |