Example sentences of "that [noun prp] have been [v-ing] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered what Spiderglass would do to Chesarynth when they found out that Jezrael had been trying to free her . |
| 2 | While there is no conclusive evidence to suggest that Syria has been attempting to develop nuclear devices , it continues to purchase large quantities of heavy weapons and missiles from China and has illegally proscribed certain areas in Syria from IAEA inspection . |
| 3 | The involvement of students was something that Owen had been hoping to avoid . |
| 4 | The horse that Tremayne had been going to run had gone lame , and another of Sam 's rides had been withdrawn because its owner 's wife had died . |
| 5 | But BitC was an outfit with drive , enthusiasm , and a determination to make the sort of changes in society that Charles had been trying to make for years . |
| 6 | UK Transport Minister John MacGregor yesterday published a paper proposal to introduce road pricing to ease congestion in London : under his plan , every car would have to be fitted with an electronic identifier , and its movements within the capital would be monitored by 4,000 roadside beacons : drivers would either establish credit with the system operator or be sent a quarterly bill , the Evening Standard reports ; the paper says that MacGregor has been trying to think up a snappy name for the thing , but reckless of the manner in which the Community Charge degenerated into the much-excoriated Poll Tax , he has settled on Congestion Charge . |
| 7 | The $420m a year that America has been getting to compensate it for the loss in sales of farm products to Spain and Portugal after they joined the Community was due to run out in 1990 . |
| 8 | Alice 's mother-in-law thought she was going to have an afternoon 's shopping , it was what she liked doing herself , and she believed , without any evidence for this , that Alice had been longing to get to the shops on her own . |
| 9 | The final word on Tony Iommi 's custom-built JD guitar has to come from John Diggins himself : ‘ Apart from the fact that Tony 's been threatening to take me out for a drink ever since I 've known him , things have changed a lot , and now we do n't get the time to get together any more . |
| 10 | The key phrase is , of course , ‘ he let his thinking catch up with him ’ , with its subtle implication that Tethra has been trying to run away from the knowledge that he does not belong . |