Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] had [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 2 | The other girl who had been talking to Blake walked over to the Doctor . |
| 3 | There can be little doubt that Picasso was excited by the work that Braque brought back to Paris from l'Estaque in which he was drawing such original answers from the questions he had been putting to Cézanne 's art . |
| 4 | Al-Kadir , the timid and vacillating ruler of Valencia , capitulated without delay , restoring the tribute he had been paying to El Cid before his second banishment . |
| 5 | The officer 's life was ‘ almost certainly ’ saved by the fact that one bullet became embedded in a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 6 | His life had almost certainly been saved by the fact that one bullet had hit a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 7 | ‘ Sure I would , ’ and her brother turned on the Sunday game he had been listening to when Moran entered the yard . |
| 8 | ‘ If what this girl says is true , you 'll find proof of their guilt in the car , sergeant , ’ said the stout man who had been talking to the keeper . |
| 9 | Never had anything been so well trumpeted to me ; surely there had been an element of hyperbole from so many colleagues and friends who had been going to the jamboree for years ? |
| 10 | The dentist I had been going to for years no longer took NHS patients . |
| 11 | I had thought at the time she had been referring to an officer on some survey vessel , the British Antarctic Survey 's supply ship perhaps , or else a pelagic fisherman or whaler , even an Antarctic explorer . |