Example sentences of "that [noun prp] [noun prp] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rauschning also began to realise that Gauleiter Forster had been using the economic reforms initiated by the Party in 1933 to line his own pocket . |
| 2 | It has been suspected for some time that North Korea has been working on a nuclear device . |
| 3 | Melissa played thoughtfully with her empty coffee mug and reflected on what now seemed the certainty that Rodney Shergold had been having an affair with Angy . |
| 4 | I hear that Nicolas Thompson has been doing the rounds of literary agents in an attempt to improve the image of Reed Consumer Books among the agenting community . |
| 5 | Jack and Dieter had stated quite clearly that Alain Gebrec had been lying on the rocks below the belvedere . |
| 6 | When she found that she was pregnant , she turned to her older sister for help , and since the O'Dells knew that Mr Marriner had been paying court to Moira , they assumed he was responsible for her condition . |
| 7 | same sort of feel that Mr Allenby 's been dealing with ? |
| 8 | The most direct risk of an Arab exit is an Israeli entry : the very response that Mr Hussein has been hoping for . |
| 9 | Yesterday publican John McKeague said that Mr McGarry had been drinking regularly in his bar for the last 20 years , but added that no one had ever asked about his movements . |
| 10 | She was a close friend of the Duchess of Portland and , when staying with her at Bulstrode in Buckinghamshire , December 1753 , reported that Philip Miller had been working in the library and , On another occasion when they met , she commented on his reticence . |
| 11 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 12 | As he got nearer to No. 22 he decided that Mrs Brocklebank had been neglecting her duties here as well . |
| 13 | Loretta turned to find that Geoffrey Simmons had been listening to the conversation . |
| 14 | ‘ At the Polish centre they told me that Marek Nowak had been looking into his father 's life . |
| 15 | When Eliot heard that Wyndham Lewis had been travelling around North Africa in a thick English suit , he remarked , " Lewis was always a heavily dressed man " ; and of a lady who had acquired too many petrol coupons during the first year of the war , he said , " There is always bound to be a certain element of iniquity in these matters " . |
| 16 | Here the unilateral option intersected with the other strategy that de Gaulle had been pursuing , in a number of places , over the course of the previous three years . |
| 17 | For all the week that Timothy Gedge had been tormenting them it had n't once occurred to her , which surprised her as she prayed now . |
| 18 | The Japanese would like such a declaration to involve regular summit meetings , perhaps as often as twice a year , between the Japanese prime minister and the Community president — like the informal meetings that Toshiki Kaifu has been having with President Bush . |
| 19 | He felt that Lord Atkin had been attempting to explain what was meant by a judicial decision but unfortunately his words had encouraged subsequent courts to concentrate on the form rather than the essence of the decision . |
| 20 | SIR — The fact that Steve Redfern has been trying for six years to resume playing rugby union after playing rugby league ( Daily Telegraph , April 2 ) shows that union is a more enjoyable game . |
| 21 | They were barely inside the front door when the elderly housekeeper appeared and told Cinzia that Signorina Cook had been looking for her . |
| 22 | Well I 'd like to go back to the sorts of things that Barbara Bryant has been talking about . |
| 23 | He felt certain that Paul Lexington had been trying to pull a fast one on his coproducer . |
| 24 | The far-off cries of the lone bird they 'd been hearing since sunset had recently seemed to double in intensity , and Loc realized that Paul Devraux had been echoing its call by blowing on blades of jungle grass between his thumbs . |
| 25 | The court heard that PC Whitehouse had been questioning the driver of another red Ford car when the Sierra came speeding round the corner . |
| 26 | It subsequently emerged that Lady Essex had been administering debilitating potions to her husband and was implicated in the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury , who knew too much about this . |