Example sentences of "that [noun] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernice decided that Ell had been watching too many films . |
| 2 | Kochen maintained that DEC had been taking a worldwide census of ‘ hundreds of customers ’ recently to ascertain whether OSF/1-on-MIPS was a viable policy . |
| 3 | While the specialist was examining her legs , Janet mentioned that Lisa had been suffering from aches in her neck . |
| 4 | They must be the ones that Mum had been eating when you I came in . |
| 5 | She wondered what Spiderglass would do to Chesarynth when they found out that Jezrael had been trying to free her . |
| 6 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour . |
| 7 | He said that Dodman had been suffering from a mental illness which could have affected his behaviour and asked that Dodman be sent for psychiatric help . |
| 8 | I did n't know that Ben had been following me around for the last five years ! |
| 9 | Any unease that Lucy had been feeling now vanished in the face of Charlie 's uncharacteristic embarrassment . |
| 10 | The trial , on 4 February , heard that Shiloh had been running in a race at Carfin dog track in August last year when he broke his leg . |
| 11 | Perhaps she 'd heard on the college grapevine that Barney had been getting an undue amount of visits from the police and was rejoicing that the heat was off her beloved Rodney . |
| 12 | But he had barely been gone for an hour when there came the signal that Thorfinn had been waiting for . |
| 13 | He was conscious that Therese had been engaging in ‘ business ’ but had n't appreciated how it had looked from the front until it was too late to do anything about it . |
| 14 | Mr Hirst added that Hilton had been discussing the possibility of moving into India and had already evaluated properties in Delhi and Bombay with the aim of a management contract with a small amount of equity . |
| 15 | Following his death reports emerged that Falcone had been working closely with Judge Antonio di Pietro on the investigations into corruption in Milan 's local government [ see below ] . |
| 16 | The aim was to ensure that subjects had been fixating correctly by requiring them to report this digit immediately prior to recalling the stimulus . |
| 17 | What he does n't seem to know is that Albie had been talking to Carmichael . |
| 18 | ( We can see how the new Aeschylean note that Nietzsche had been sounding since his lectures of 1870 was , like much else , in harmony with Wagner 's aspiration . ) |
| 19 | We guessed , wrongly , that Frank had been talking back home . |
| 20 | It had never occurred to her that Christopher had been thinking of these things too . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , piss off , ’ he 'd said finally , which was exactly the reaction that Pete had been expecting . |
| 22 | Gabriel went back to her table , conscious that Cat had been listening , but probably could n't make more of it than he already knew . |
| 23 | ‘ When we were waiting to be questioned by the police , Doug Wilson was saying that Rodney had been making a play for Angy and hinting that he might have got somewhere . ’ |
| 24 | The fact was that Algy had been living for the last year with a working-class architect called Len in a basement flat in Maida Vale . |
| 25 | The usher explained that Eva had been working in Africa and was now principal of an international college . |
| 26 | Western reports said that troops had been massing in the region since December 1990 . |
| 27 | She also knew that Bertie had been lying to her over ‘ discontinuing ’ the post . |
| 28 | Her feeling was that Meryl had been waiting for someone … |
| 29 | On the evidence before the learned judge , it was plain that Wickes had been trading on Sundays and intended to continue doing so in the future unless restrained by the court ; and it was common ground between the parties that Wickes ' Sunday trading was in breach of section 47 unless that section had been rendered ineffective by article 30 of the Treaty . |
| 30 | On the whole Morse was not unhappy that Ashenden had been ringing around . |