Example sentences of "[that] they had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reading it , the British discovered that they had been speaking the imperial equivalent of prose all their lives . |
| 2 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 3 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 4 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 5 | The authorities claimed that they had been living illegally on land which had been allocated to others , in Khartoum suburbs such as Karmuta where large numbers of mud-brick houses had reportedly now been vacated and then destroyed by bulldozers . |
| 6 | Erm and so therefore er they , they knew tools that they had been using since the period of the war , erm were gradually being overtaken by the new types of ceramic tools . |
| 7 | Lisa and Phoebe shared the painful knowledge that they had been conning themselves as well as their men . |
| 8 | I had the idea that they had been quarrelling and had n't quite made it up . |
| 9 | Despite the fact that they had been trying to kill each other , against the creature they were united . |
| 10 | However they also felt that they had been expecting most children to write in sentences at too early an age . |
| 11 | The two drivers were later charged with dangerous driving , but it was widely suspected that they had been acting on orders . |
| 12 | The Prussian banks found that they had been lending increasing amounts to the Junkers to maintain a lifestyle rather than to finance the modernisation of facilities and improve agricultural methods . |
| 13 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |
| 14 | We enter the area that they had been defending and everything shows that the Germans have pulled out in a hurry . |
| 15 | They said that they had been talking about it themselves . |
| 16 | Betty would have been upset to know that they had been talking of the devil . |
| 17 | ‘ She said she had known for some time that she and Fabien could not remain at La Tour Monchauzet after their marriage — that they had been talking together about moving away — of going , perhaps , as far as Australia or California and starting a totally new life . |
| 18 | That was until the day of his funeral , when his fancy woman , Alice Mulcahy , through gin-inspired sorrow , told her that they had been making plans to go to America . |
| 19 | Many programmers realized that they had been programming things that should never have been taught at all , or that should have been taught by some other method or combination of methods . |
| 20 | They seemed surprised and told him that they had been burning their rubber boots . |
| 21 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 22 | It was then that I discovered that they had been keeping our group under surveillance and noting down the registration numbers of cars parked outside the meeting place . |
| 23 | The defendants also ran a wire service and it was found by the judge that they had been obtaining information from a subscriber to the plaintiff 's service for republication by them . |
| 24 | The hijackers , who told reporters that they had been attempting to gain publicity for the pro-democracy cause in Myanma , pleaded guilty in Bangkok Criminal Court on Jan. 30 , 1990 . |
| 25 | She subsequently discovered that they had been having an affair for several months . |
| 26 | What proved to be the trouble was that they had been munching handfuls of powdered soap . |
| 27 | Most of the ‘ masters ’ of torture said that they had been fighting a desperate unseen war , whose atmosphere could not be imagined by people from democracies . |
| 28 | Protected from prosecution by an amnesty law of 1978 , the military opposed any such investigation but their claim that they had been fighting a war against left-wing subversion became increasingly untenable with the discovery of mass graves containing the bodies of their political opponents and the disclosure of how they had indulged in corrupt financial practices while in power , including the payment of US$3,000,000 to Pinochet 's son [ see pp. 37528-29 ; 37852-53 ; 37958 ] . |
| 29 | Because of the term 's many meanings , and the confusion they therefore create , it is proposed in these pages to avoid them where-ever possible Resource-based learning , like resource-based teaching , can obviously exemplify " educational technology " in one or other meaning , but a surprising number of teachers would indignantly deny that they had been practising it ; in some cases , this implies disagreement or scepticism with the claims made by some sell styled " educational technologists ' ( meaning 5 ) and in other cases derives simply from a misunderstanding . |
| 30 | It was alleged that at first the railway company denied that they had been travelling on the train at all , and it was indeed suggested that the two children were chance victims of the holocaust and they happened to be wandering by the railway at the time . |