Example sentences of "[noun] have been [v-ing] that " in BNC.

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1 It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding .
2 Burn had been ploughing that May afternoon and was leading his horses back to the field after his tea .
3 It was a shirt exactly like the one her singer had been wearing that night , as he swaggered among the women , and whispered ‘ Me quieres ? ’ to them all .
4 During the last decade evidence has been accumulating that fluid secretion in the small intestine is often evoked via stimulation of the enteric nervous system ( ENS ) .
5 She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well .
6 He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that .
7 But in recent years concern has been growing that economic forecasts are not up to the mark .
8 I hear you say , DTP has been doing that for years Yes — but moving ones ?
9 The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years .
10 Pike was pointing to the grass near to where Mr Marr had been sitting that night .
11 In actual fact , Fabia had been wondering that selfsame thing herself .
12 Earl Grey was so English , so sedate , and maybe Ilsa had been living that way for fifty years .
13 This idea of a running commentary is shown on pg 59 where he tells the reader what various characters of the play have been doing that day .
14 The birds , the birds have been eating that .
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