Example sentences of "that they had been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 2 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 3 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 4 | Erm and so therefore er they , they knew tools that they had been using since the period of the war , erm were gradually being overtaken by the new types of ceramic tools . |
| 5 | The two drivers were later charged with dangerous driving , but it was widely suspected that they had been acting on orders . |
| 6 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 7 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 8 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A judge told William Sim and David Todd that they had been playing for high stakes and had to pay the penalty . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Throughout the trial the brothers had maintained that they had been working as agents for the British Government in Dublin . |