Example sentences of "that had be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile , the corporate-finance deals that had been generating big bucks for Wall Street 's investment bankers were starting to dry up . |
| 2 | My next call was to the company that had been holding some of my things in storage , just to warn them that I was coming round . |
| 3 | I heard myself saying the line that had been waiting ready for months : ‘ I think the time has come when you must go in . ’ |
| 4 | These became , in fact , the almost exclusive preserve of Hammer Films , a company that had been making skilfully-marketed pictures with an eye on the US B-movie market since the late 1940s . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Chebrikov was particularly scathing about the ‘ informal groups ’ that had been attracting public attention , warning that ‘ extremist elements ’ had worked their way into the leaderships of some of them and that they were encouraging them to engage in actions ‘ objectively against the interests of our society ’ . |