Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [been] [v-ing] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It had struck her that perhaps that was where Jake had been going that night he 'd called her from Heathrow Airport — on a secret brief honeymoon with Janice after a quick , quiet register office wedding .
2 Burn had been ploughing that May afternoon and was leading his horses back to the field after his tea .
3 It was a shirt exactly like the one her singer had been wearing that night , as he swaggered among the women , and whispered ‘ Me quieres ? ’ to them all .
4 She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well .
5 The negro was obviously homosexual and I realized that homosexuals had been buying that stuff for years .
6 Pike was pointing to the grass near to where Mr Marr had been sitting that night .
7 Earl Grey was so English , so sedate , and maybe Ilsa had been living that way for fifty years .
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