Example sentences of "[verb] he had [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 2 | He had said he had been fighting with another man . |
| 3 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 4 | The man claimed he had been looking for his girlfriend when challenged by staff members . |
| 5 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
| 6 | He came forward into the firelight then and she saw he had been sitting beside the range , in an old rocking chair which he had left tilting back and forth , to take the lantern from her , grasping her free hand in his . |
| 7 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 8 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 9 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 10 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 11 | Buckby , who is also secretary of the Langbaurgh Schools Cross Country Association , said he had been trying for nearly ten years to have the rule changed . |
| 12 | He said he had been living with his parents in Fazakerley , and had been sub-letting the flat to another man . |
| 13 | Douglas Gray of Middleton in Teesdale said he had been complaining for over two years about undelivered letters and hit out at the ‘ uncaring attitude ’ of the Post Office in Darlington . |
| 14 | Mr Justice Johnson , who jailed the 37year-old Marquess for failing to pay £10,534 to his estranged wife Becky , said he had been acting in excess of his powers when he imposed the sentence . |
| 15 | Kasparov said he had been negotiating with the FIDE president , Florencio Campomanes , for several days to try to persuade him to transfer the federation 's rights to stage the championship to the PCA and make Manchester a ‘ transitionary ’ match . |
| 16 | My dinner companions were two Swiss nurses doing a world tour , and Roger Rasmussen , a pensioner front Queensland who said he had been travelling by train for 16 days non-stop . |
| 17 | Local people said he had been working on the site for two years and was very popular with them . |