Example sentences of "[noun] [that] had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The representatives of nations and organizations that had been preserving a cautious neutrality now swelled the flock , gabbling about friendly relations and mutual benefit . |
| 2 | The black eyes that had been sparkling with good humour a moment before had become hard , almost angry . |
| 3 | However the frontal , main attack towards the Mort Homme had barely moved from its point of departure ; stopped by a veritable wall of gunfire from the French artillery that had been anticipating attack from this direction for many days . |
| 4 | Luke was in command and this time instinct told Robyn there would be no withdrawal , no respite from his sexual onslaught , from the tension that had been building between them since the very first moment . |
| 5 | But it did break down some of the unbearable tension that had been building . |
| 6 | He sang a few bars of it in a lusty baritone that filled the darkness , and oddly enough dispelled some of the tension that had been growing in her . |
| 7 | All the while she had been talking , she had been moving little by little to one side , her movements casual , and when she was exactly where she wanted to be she reached out and grasped , lifted , and swiftly jabbed the pitchfork that had been standing in the corner of the stall . |
| 8 | Senna explained his version of the collision , saying : ‘ Nigel and I had passed the car that had been holding us up and then he braked earlier than I expected . |
| 9 | With neither the political crisis that Labour 's resignation from the Government would have caused , nor the industrial explosion , which — however much pacifists might fear it — would undoubtedly have created new possibilities for their politics , the momentum that had been building up since the Russian Revolution nearly a year earlier was sharply checked . |
| 10 | Voices that had been chattering away at you all your life . |
| 11 | The flame that had been burning inside her since their first kiss burst suddenly into flame . |
| 12 | In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so . |
| 13 | ‘ Was the rehearsal a success ? ’ she asked stiltedly , still plagued by the doubts that had been besetting her ever since leaving Gavin . |
| 14 | The outer door thumped shut , and the lock that had been holding back and resisting went home . |
| 15 | So that national er budget that had been accumulating over , over twenty thirty years just basically vanished . |
| 16 | In 1949 , at the height of the Cold War , almost exactly ten years after the events themselves , the storm that had been brewing in Aragon 's mind since 1940 finally-burst , with the publication of Les Communistes . |
| 17 | The storm that had been circling in the distance wandered far off , only an occasional casual flicker of light low in the sky showed that somewhere the enormous battle was going on . |
| 18 | A lone man at nearly midnight , wearing a thin jacket in a storm that had been blowing for over an hour … |
| 19 | ‘ Well , if I do , I 've chosen a pretty safe place to do it in , I think , ’ she responded tenderly , exploring the commanding contours of his face with fingers that had been aching to do this for months . |
| 20 | Children were playing on the green , a wet labrador that had been swimming in the beck was drying out by the village cross , and there was just room amongst the people sat at the table outside the pub for one man and his dog . |
| 21 | The shields of his men broke bows against the shields of his enemies , and the shouting that had been going on all the time rose to a shattering yell . |
| 22 | A senior academic was arrested ‘ for carrying unsigned tracts ’ of a kind that had been circulating throughout the city for a month . |
| 23 | The blue-tit that had been swinging on a bramble , singing " Heigh , ho , go-and-get-another-bit-of-moss , " stopped his acrobatics and flew into the wood . |
| 24 | That was it until handover on Monday , which she hoped would be enough time to shake off the cold that had been dogging her for the last couple of days . |
| 25 | I had kept all the abuse that had been happening to me very much to myself — it seemed to me that I must have been very bad . |
| 26 | ‘ Some of the lads had been feeling it and this gave them the chance to pay some of the bills that had been piling up . |
| 27 | In Australia , he had rejuvenated a sport that had been declining for years ; in England , he did exactly the same , leaving people exhilarated by his team 's play wherever they went and creating a great new surge of interest in the game . |
| 28 | She smiled to herself , reflecting that this was the question that had been torturing Richard all his life . |
| 29 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 30 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |