Example sentences of "question [conj] have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She smiled to herself , reflecting that this was the question that had been torturing Richard all his life . |
| 2 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 3 | It was the question that had been tormenting her from the very moment she had seen him enter the room . |
| 4 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 5 | It was Michael who asked the question that had been troubling them all . |
| 6 | I WOULD like to post a question that has been troubling me for some time . |
| 7 | It 's a question that 's been bothering me . |
| 8 | Resisting the temptation to ask for answers to some of the questions that had been plaguing her , Luce shook her head . |
| 9 | She waited , holding her breath , wondering whether he would really answer all the questions that had been buzzing around in her head ever since she had first met him , or whether he would skirt around the subject and depend instead on the overwhelming attraction she felt for him to talk her back into bed . |