Example sentences of "what had [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As one walked outside , another began arguing with Dad who was , naturally , absolutely furious at what had been taking place . |
| 2 | What had been lacking in her that he had found in Henrietta ? |
| 3 | He hardly comprehended what had been happening ; the reality and unreality merged together like a nightmare or a melodrama . |
| 4 | What had been happening financially over the last five or six years is unclear but in 1932 the situation was regarded as ‘ serious ’ and it was to continue so ( as with other Clubs in the Depression ) until the late 1930's . |
| 5 | And they were probably unaware of the scale of what had been happening , not just in their own field of Public Libraries , which was bad enough , but across the whole spectrum of British Public Institutional Libraries . |
| 6 | I had n't known how to explain what had been happening even if I 'd dared to . |
| 7 | What was happening clearly had no connection with what had been happening before or would , presumably , happen afterwards . |
| 8 | Once I had discussed the situation with Sylvia and explained to her what had been happening , we were able to progress to the next stage . |
| 9 | What had been happening was an assumption of power on the part of the Vietminh and the demonstration that a communist party could seize the opportunity to capitalize on the power of nationalism at a moment of unparalleled opportunity . |
| 10 | I 'm gon na start by going back to that graph we looked at first thing this morning which is trying to explain what had been happening to the pattern of tourism , both visitors to this country and visitors moving away from this country in the period nineteen seventy eight to nineteen eighty two . |
| 11 | The restructuring approach tended to focus more on detailed investigation of what had been happening in a small number of cases , in a particular industry perhaps . |
| 12 | As she slowly regained strength , Julia began to be able to think of things beyond her own physical state , and whenever David came to see her she urged him to tell her what had been happening at the trial . |
| 13 | Over the meal Karr outlined what had been happening since his return from Mars . |
| 14 | Tilda began to tell him exactly what had been happening in Dr Kildare , so far . |
| 15 | She must be losing her marbles , because she 'd absolutely no recollection of what had been happening during the past few minutes … ! |
| 16 | Rachel stared at her sister in silence , shocked by what she had just heard , not so much by the fact that Paul Mason had been married but because he was as different from David Markham as it was possible for a man to be , and none of them had even suspected what had been happening . |
| 17 | Maybe she could phone Aunt Maureen and tell her what had been happening . |
| 18 | Defence counsel said the girls ' mother had no knowledge of what had been happening . |
| 19 | did n't know what had been happening because he was n't at the meeting . |
| 20 | What had been missing in it had been children , she decided . |
| 21 | Yet , according to French sources , when François Mitterrand complained about the tone of Mr Bartholomew 's warnings at his recent meeting with President Bush on Martinique , the American president did not know what had been going on . |
| 22 | ‘ He just stood there in a cloud of smoke , ’ recalls one of the people first through the door after him , ‘ while they effed and blinded at him and told him what they thought of what had been going on in the hall . |
| 23 | I explained what had been going on . |
| 24 | In each case , examples of the disclosures in accounts are provided to show what information was available to indicate what had been going on . |
| 25 | I was puzzled about what had been going on but was pleased that Dad , at any rate , was in a good mood . |
| 26 | He was uneasy about what had been going on in his absence , which had lasted for some months . |
| 27 | Subsequent work by David Foulkes and others , showed that the very striking differences between experience during REM bursts and REM quiescence was not as great when subjects were questioned at any length , rather than being allowed to make spontaneous reports of what had been going on in their minds . |
| 28 | She did n't know whether to smile back or not , and she wondered what that expression had meant , and what had been going through his head for the last few miles . |
| 29 | She did n't have to ask if Christine knew what had been going on here . |
| 30 | What had been going on in her cabin could only have led to one thing , and that was something that must never happen again . |