Example sentences of "that had been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The child 's corpse must have been loaded onto some form of transport that had been waiting beyond the yard . |
| 32 | They gave him a letter that had been waiting for his arrival . |
| 33 | Furthermore , when Joseph explained to his brothers the purposes of God that had been running through the events they had been caught up in , he used terms recalling the promises of Genesis 12 : ‘ … you meant evil against me ; but God meant it for good , to bring it about that many people should be kept alive , as they are today ’ ( 50.20 ; see , too , 45.4–11 ) . |
| 34 | It may also have been that the government was unwilling to lend further strength to the clamour for the reform of the Official Secrets Act ( which has now happened ) that had been mounting for some years . |
| 35 | ‘ Toe-rag ! ’ he muttered , picking up the drink that had been standing on the glass above the labyrinth of numbers and wires . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Prices had been driven up 125 per cent since 1914 and the wave of nation-wide strikes and industrial unrest that had been coming to a head on the eve of the great conflict , burst into flame . |
| 38 | I remember one bloke who was part of a working class West London crowd that had been coming into the shop since the early days . |
| 39 | ‘ Democracy Wall ’ soon became a popular venue for those with grievances and a focus for the dissent that had been growing under the surface for years . |
| 40 | European overlordship , however , was to prove incompatible with the notions of Arab nationalism that had been growing since the end of the nineteenth century ; and it was no surprise that this would become apparent first in the most advanced country in the region , Egypt . |
| 41 | As his sword went back for his final sweep the sullen glow that had been growing in the doorway of the Broken Drum flickered , dimmed , and erupted into a roaring fireball that sent the walls billowing outward and carried the roof a hundred feet into the air before bursting through it , in a gout of red-hot tiles . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | There was a throbbing urgency developing in the way they touched , a desperation in their kisses ; the yearning for fulfilment that had been growing in her since this man had first taken her was now a scream deep inside her , aching for him , crying for him , sobbing for him . |
| 44 | The dawn ride alone with Jacques Devraux through the breathtaking natural beauty of the tropical forest had first heightened the pleasurable feeling of pent-up excitement that had been growing within her in recent days , then eventually left her feeling tense and on edge . |
| 45 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 46 | These efforts by the government were given more force through the White Paper Better Schools , which outlined the aims that had been emerging through the previous documents . |
| 47 | The dramatic shake-ups during those periods do not suddenly appear out of nowhere but should be seen as resulting from the more gradual and less fundamental changes that had been occurring within the old structure 's context over previous decades . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | There was a great fear of the fickleness of audiences , an anxiety that the craze would die and that in particular movies would lose their fascination for precisely those sections of society that had been going to them longest . |
| 50 | 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 . |
| 51 | She should have been sharing breakfast with Kelly right now , laughing and chatting , catching up on all that had been happening over the past few months . |
| 52 | The flame that had been burning inside her since their first kiss burst suddenly into flame . |
| 53 | Surely this was something that had been threatening for years ? |
| 54 | 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 . |
| 55 | With an effort , Miles shook off the lethargy that had been creeping over him since Paula 's death , blinding him to his duties and responsibilities . |
| 56 | He began to whistle a tune that had been dancing through his head ever since he left the pub : |
| 57 | A lone man at nearly midnight , wearing a thin jacket in a storm that had been blowing for over an hour … |