Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] he had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 2 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 3 | When one recalls that for decades geography was not recognized as a scholarly discipline , one can not perhaps be surprised that some scientists have unsuspectingly spent their whole careers studying geography — rather like the well-known character of Molière who did not know that he had been speaking prose all his life ! |
| 4 | Gavin Turk , who attracted notice for erecting , as his only contribution to his degree show at the Royal College of Art a year ago , a blue English Heritage plaque announcing that he had been working in his studio for two years , is having a first exhibition at an apartment in Docklands , opposite Canary Wharf ( 1–31 July ; by appointment only , call 071–274 0041 ) . |
| 5 | In [ 17 ] the author writes that he had been saying that Gardner looked very square : But of course Carver had not actually said that Gardner looked very square , at least not in the Gricean ( Grice 1981 ) sense of the word . |
| 6 | The master at this time , J.W. , was in trouble when it was reported that he had been boarding some of the officers and two of their relatives in his own apartments under a private arrangement . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , they have demonstrated activity in the visual areas during an imaging task , in the language areas during a verbal task and even , on one - occasion , in the higher visual areas of a schizophrenic patient who subsequently reported that he had been hallucinating . |
| 8 | More than one unwary member of the garrison found that his bed had vanished while he had been defending the rampart against a sepoy assault . |
| 9 | He was also weaving and Adam realized that he had been drinking . |
| 10 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 11 | He asked himself , ‘ What is the direction upon which I have been depending ? ’ , and realized that he had been relying on a sense of what seemed ‘ natural ’ and ‘ right ’ to govern his actions . |
| 12 | It only needed a quick glance to see that he had been rebuking her , for her face was flushed and angry and he wore the grim look that made him appear so formidable . |
| 13 | The star , hailed a hero after reports that he piloted his crippled executive jet to safety , refused to confirm that he had been flying the plane . |
| 14 | A big farmer admitted that he had been selling cotton stalks to agricultural labourers , a new trend in the region . |
| 15 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 16 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 17 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 18 | At one minute it seemed that he had been having a fine old dream about Humans and banquets and the Frost Giantess frying on a spit . |
| 19 | 1.11 In Roberts v Sparks [ 1977 ] CLY 2643 , where the plaintiff was thrown out of the defendant 's vehicle , the court reduced his damages by 25 per cent because the injuries he suffered would clearly have been avoided by wearing a seat belt ; but it added back 5 per cent for the injuries he would have suffered if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 20 | Would the ship 's company have been saved if he had been singing a hit from the music-halls ? |
| 21 | Allen had been interested in the sack ; she had seen him stooping where the sack was hidden and he had been doing something with it . |
| 22 | There were gulls flying and calling , but I had not disturbed the main colony , and I thought that I would have heard if he had been working below the cliffs at the north-west point . |
| 23 | To the end — or at least to his testimony in Poindexter 's trial , in 1990 — Reagan maintained he did not believe that he had been trading arms for hostages . |
| 24 | Well , he was certainly in a good mood , and no sign so far as she could see that he had been drinking what Matey called ‘ his nasty whisky ’ , so she prepared herself to play him . |
| 25 | The others looked at him almost in disbelief , but I could see that he had been thinking very carefully . |
| 26 | But although ‘ Tuxy ’ Girdle may not have been a youthful Hooligan , it did emerge that he had been running whores and he received a substantial sentence of penal servitude for the assault on the man whom the gang had suspected of being a police spy . |
| 27 | Nabiyev , however , claimed that he had been touring the region to meet the population after recent mudslide disasters . |
| 28 | Only then did he fully realize that he had been experiencing a mild dull pressure in the head , as well as the nausea , physical and mental fatigue . |
| 29 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 30 | She guessed that he had been standing at the window or listening for the sound of her key in the lock . |