Example sentences of "[noun] he had [be] [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 2 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 3 | Yuan looked down , then broached the subject he had been avoiding all evening . |
| 4 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 5 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 6 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |