Example sentences of "[noun] he had been [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
| 2 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 3 | Instead he sent out 12th man Paul Reiffel to cover for him whole he rang chairman of selectors Lawrie Sawle to vent his feelings about the news he had been given that morning . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yuan looked down , then broached the subject he had been avoiding all evening . |
| 6 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |