Example sentences of "that had [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She heard the incredulity in his voice and it fuelled the small truth that had been niggling at her , unacknowledged , all day . |
| 2 | With neither the political crisis that Labour 's resignation from the Government would have caused , nor the industrial explosion , which — however much pacifists might fear it — would undoubtedly have created new possibilities for their politics , the momentum that had been building up since the Russian Revolution nearly a year earlier was sharply checked . |
| 3 | that he finally gave way to the tears that had been building up inside him since Michael 's visit . |
| 4 | Luke was in command and this time instinct told Robyn there would be no withdrawal , no respite from his sexual onslaught , from the tension that had been building between them since the very first moment . |
| 5 | But it did break down some of the unbearable tension that had been building . |
| 6 | She smiled to herself , reflecting that this was the question that had been torturing Richard all his life . |
| 7 | Some hours later , after a torrential thunderstorm , the wriggling foot , that had been kicking in very strange places , finally broke through and I soke at five in the morning with a warm , wet feeling . |
| 8 | They were on the dusty painted dresser , on the shelves , and on a tin tray before a freckled old mirror that had been hanging in the bathroom . |
| 9 | Recently , in fact , with only bathroom tissue , hand soap and water , I cleaned up an acrylic painting that had been hanging in a office for 24 years . |
| 10 | When the political and moral credibility of the Soviet system collapsed in 1956 , something that had been slumbering in the depths of Sartre 's consciousness was suddenly reawakened . |
| 11 | In the brief walk from No. 22 to his own flat he had pulled from the back of his mind a conviction that had been forming there without much conscious thought on his part , just something he knew . |
| 12 | The hand that had been caressing her breast , stopped abruptly . |
| 13 | The softly spoken threat cut through the haze fogging her brain and she sat bolt upright , knocking away the hand that had been caressing her into submission almost without her realising it . |
| 14 | 1991 , 27 , 1151 ) failed to mention that the special exhibition on the work of Sir William Henry Perkin was in addition to a poster exhibition that had been touring Essex and east London over the previous six months . |
| 15 | The blue-tit that had been swinging on a bramble , singing " Heigh , ho , go-and-get-another-bit-of-moss , " stopped his acrobatics and flew into the wood . |
| 16 | SALT I , the most important of these , placed limits on the further construction of intercontinental nuclear weapon systems by both sides ; it was intended to remain in force for five years or until superseded by a more comprehensive agreement , and it was the first real fruit of negotiations that had been proceeding since the late 1960s . |
| 17 | The expression that had been haunting her for nearly two days . |
| 18 | Australia was also forced to take a stand on drift-netting when the establishment of the Australian Fishing Zone in 1979 brought under Australian jurisdiction a Taiwanese drift fleet that had been operating , since the mid 1970s , in what had previously been international waters in the Timor and Arafura Seas off northern Australia . |
| 19 | And the one that had been writhing on the ground recovered itself , lunging towards her from the other side . |
| 20 | She hid more success with the identities of various names that had been puzzling her since their last encounter , and most satisfactorily of all , she placed the baby . |
| 21 | As he glanced up at her , his eyes shuttered , she found herself asking another question that had been puzzling her for a while . |
| 22 | We discovered that by making permanent changes to their usual diets individuals felt that their general health improved dramatically ; they felt far better mentally , and they managed to lose those ugly pounds of flesh that had been slowing them down and stubbing their ego . |
| 23 | There was no sound or sign of life other than the scolding of blackbirds and the sudden dash of a startled fawn that had been grazing absorbedly on the fresh grass at the forest edge . |
| 24 | So th let's look then back at this illustration for a moment , this incident , Jesus then gets er a few of his disciples and they go out , in the boat , and there are others who follow him , they get into their boats quite likely , quite possibly that many of the others would have been followers of Jesus , some of his other disciples , it 's unlikely in these very small little er lakeside fishing boats that many of disciples would have got in , there might have been four or five of them that would have been about the lot and so the others would have got into some of the other boats which were nearby and , and others are the people that had been listening to Jesus , they too get into boats , and they pull out following him , wanting to hear if he 's got anything more to say , wanting to witness anything else that he 's gon na do , they wan na be there to see and to hear what Jesus has to say and is going to do . |
| 25 | When Sandra was nearly fourteen her mother had suddenly grabbed hold of her by the knobbly clothes-prop in the sloping garden and delivered up the one piece of advice that had been fermenting in that already greying head for decades . |
| 26 | The storm that had been circling in the distance wandered far off , only an occasional casual flicker of light low in the sky showed that somewhere the enormous battle was going on . |
| 27 | In the early 1970s the local firm that had been producing soap since 1943 was closed down by the action of its major shareholder , who also owned an import agency . |
| 28 | So that national er budget that had been accumulating over , over twenty thirty years just basically vanished . |
| 29 | In 1962 H. H. Hess , of Princeton University in the USA , published a radical explanation for much of the geological data that had been accumulating over the previous decade or so . |
| 30 | There was an emergency Cabinet meeting shortly after 11 p.m. , and as it progressed the storm clouds that had been gathering all Saturday evening came to a head . |