Example sentences of "that [pron] had [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It struck me one day , walking through the busy market near her home , that I had n't thought about my weight for over a month , that I had been eating without really worrying about it , and that all sorts of desires were surfacing — that the protective layer of my obsession was peeling away . |
| 2 | He was overlooking the fact that I had been living with Jean-Claude for more than three years . |
| 3 | However , whilst searching through various books in my library , I chanced upon my copy of Folklore , Myths and Legends of Britain and wondered if there were anything mentioned about the Silbury Hill area that I had been writing about . |
| 4 | I realised that I had been talking about the convent without explanation or location . |
| 5 | I stayed in the bottom class , but noticed the girl that I had been talking to was in another class . |
| 6 | When I replied that I had been fighting for the extra 200,000 I had managed to achieve , I was remonstrated with for having put the business at risk . |
| 7 | He would be certain , positive , that he was about to walk Into a tree , or a post or sign he had n't noticed ; even that somebody had been watching from behind a tree and was about to leap out and punch him hard on the nose . |
| 8 | As Lou 's story progressed , however , it emerged that she had been living with Rick for several months and had high hopes of becoming engaged to him herself . |
| 9 | Her use of ‘ weakness ’ sounded belittling , precisely the effect that she had been aiming for . |
| 10 | He was inclined to believe her : her anger was a natural reaction to his accusation that she had been prying into data which was not her concern . |
| 11 | She looked back at him and smiled gently , and he saw that she had been writing in a workman-like leather-bound notebook . |
| 12 | But suddenly all that rational thinking that she had been clinging to all night was gone , gone in a puff of smoke , gone in one long and loud roll of thunder . |
| 13 | She did n't want him to know that she had been looking at him . |
| 14 | ‘ I told you not to bother , ’ Ellen said disparagingly as she climbed the main companionway , and I guessed that she had been listening to my conversation with Billingsley by standing just under the saloon skylight which was propped open . |
| 15 | She tried to recall when she had last passed a house , an AA box , a public telephone , but it seemed to her that she had been driving through deserted countryside for at least ten minutes . |
| 16 | Her boast was that she had been dancing at every RAF and American air force station within a 30-mile radius , and that she would n't look at any male with a rank lower than Squadron Leader or the American equivalent . |
| 17 | She remembers that she had been knocking on doors for years to be given a chance to act and had been practically laughed out of town . |
| 18 | It was good to know that all her veterinary training had come to her aid in spite of the fact that she had been working for two years with small animals only . |
| 19 | She had been so immersed in her anger and indignation that she had been working on automatic pilot herself . |
| 20 | But now , when her mind travelled back , it was clear from the young man 's behaviour and some of the comments he had made that she had been suffering from myopia . |
| 21 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
| 22 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 23 | Still she wondered who it was that she had been responding to . |
| 24 | One fishing vessel that we had been watching for a long period had more than one narrow escape from detection by British controls , but was finally turned back by Dutch customs patrols shortly after leaving a Continental port with a cargo of immigrants on board bound for the UK . |
| 25 | They may not have found quite the soulmate in each other that they had been looking for , but their relationship has made up for it in other ways . |
| 26 | You may lose some credibility with the clientele if you demolish him or her with a blitzkrieg attack only to find later that they had been looking for the nearest toilet ! |
| 27 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 28 | Erm and so therefore er they , they knew tools that they had been using since the period of the war , erm were gradually being overtaken by the new types of ceramic tools . |
| 29 | The two drivers were later charged with dangerous driving , but it was widely suspected that they had been acting on orders . |
| 30 | Thiercelin , for instance , had no idea of the fact that they had been listening to the work of the greatest composer of the day . |