Example sentences of "that had [been] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She smiled to herself , reflecting that this was the question that had been torturing Richard all his life . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | But mice sired by fathers that had been given morphine learn more slowly . |
| 5 | That fits Waugh 's 1930s fiction well enough , and in an age that had been reading Proust , Joyce and Virginia Woolf it must all have looked startlingly diagrammatic and technically reactionary : a reactionary politics aptly matched by a technical reaction . |
| 6 | However the frontal , main attack towards the Mort Homme had barely moved from its point of departure ; stopped by a veritable wall of gunfire from the French artillery that had been anticipating attack from this direction for many days . |
| 7 | By the summer the paper that had been interviewing Paul Johnson continued its move into youth , with a dose of Australian cultural snobbery directed against the ‘ Alfs ’ : ‘ This bizarre cult of grey , short-haired nine-to-fivers ’ , who worked as ‘ account executives , journalists , bank managers , doctors , lawyers , salesmen , dentists , insurance clerks , civil servants … |
| 8 | In October 1987 the edginess that had been afflicting stock market dealings in London , New York and Tokyo grew steadily until it was a fully-fledged panic . |
| 9 | The hands that had been playing basketball with Godzilla 's head , stopped moving . |
| 10 | The issue was sexual not physical abuse — a problem that had been gaining momentum in terms of recognition and response throughout the 1980s — and it also concerned not just one child tragedy but many . |
| 11 | The hot and humid weather that had been suffocating Paris continued the next two days . |