Example sentences of "that had been [v-ing] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | that he finally gave way to the tears that had been building up inside him since Michael 's visit . |
| 2 | In the brief walk from No. 22 to his own flat he had pulled from the back of his mind a conviction that had been forming there without much conscious thought on his part , just something he knew . |
| 3 | There was no sound or sign of life other than the scolding of blackbirds and the sudden dash of a startled fawn that had been grazing absorbedly on the fresh grass at the forest edge . |
| 4 | She waited , holding her breath , wondering whether he would really answer all the questions that had been buzzing around in her head ever since she had first met him , or whether he would skirt around the subject and depend instead on the overwhelming attraction she felt for him to talk her back into bed . |
| 5 | She placed a cup of coffee in front of him , but Travis was still letting go with everything that had been tearing away at him ever since he had first clapped eyes on Rosemary . |
| 6 | But what it did do was provide a unique workshop of the ideas that had been bubbling up in the years since the cracking of the ice in 1956 , and in a context which leapt over the boundaries of ‘ official ’ politics , whether mainstream , Marxist , anarchist , reformist , or Maoist . |
| 7 | He knew this was something that had been happening slowly for a long time , something that had to happen or he was lost , but it was such a brittle structure they were building , one word would topple it , shatter it , one word would be enough to jerk them back into that ordinary daylight where nothing could be changed or righted , nothing could unravel . |
| 8 | This position was not only the culmination of ideas that had been knocking around in Balcon 's mind for the past six years or so , it was also a declaration of a new confidence in the possibility of British cinema , and a final casting off of the inferiority complex that had impaired British filmmakers since 1918 . |
| 9 | Voices that had been chattering away at you all your life . |