Example sentences of "that her [noun] had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh , crumbs , Leith thought , and , while knowing Rosemary to be a highly intelligent girl , had a most worrying feeling that her parents had been putting some hard groundwork in on the proposition that , once married , women were n't supposed to have friends ! |
| 2 | The Princess of Wales once told me that her husband had been watching the Miss World contest , which quite surprised me . |
| 3 | She was convinced now that her husband had been working on a book about The Hell Fire Club and … |
| 4 | Then it was there , the blurry light of the candles and the singing Happy Birthday and the big whoosh … and the clapping , and when the curtains were open again Benny saw the thin young man that her father had been shaking hands with . |
| 5 | Meanwhile their investigation had received help from Roxie Farmer 's reluctant admission that her brother had been staying with her , and that he had gone off one day , borrowing her former husband 's bike , and had come back with blood on him . |
| 6 | The girl , who will be seven next month , told the High Court in Glasgow that her grandfather had been wearing a red nose and had been dressed like a clown at the time . |
| 7 | Leith mentally shook herself to join in the conversation , realising that her mother had been speaking of the wonderful opportunities there were for world-wide travelling these days . |