Example sentences of "[pron] [that] had be [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 Either way , everything that had been beginning was now ending , ebbing away without hope .
2 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 .
3 When the political and moral credibility of the Soviet system collapsed in 1956 , something that had been slumbering in the depths of Sartre 's consciousness was suddenly reawakened .
4 Claws braced on the wall beneath it , the thing strained upwards , rolling its dripping head in agony — and something that had been lying tight beneath it on the pavement slid from under its ravaged body and into the basement .
5 Surely this was something that had been threatening for years ?
6 There was no shadow , but the drifting tatters of smoke from something that had been burning were still swirling in the wind and rain .
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 And the one that had been writhing on the ground recovered itself , lunging towards her from the other side .
9 I mean the number 's quite , I said you , you reaffirmed that the number was the same one that had been doing the same thing in , in Wokingham .
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