Example sentences of "[pron] had been [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt , which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out . |
| 32 | Prior to his death , he had been planning a full-scale war with Scotland , calling upon his subjects to raise the revenues for the undertaking . |
| 33 | All this time he had been keeping a reserve force waiting in the library . |
| 34 | He had been keeping a wary eye on Jacques Devraux while he made another laborious copy of the revolutionary tract and he stopped writing to watch the Frenchman walk back to his own quarters . |
| 35 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |
| 36 | He had been carrying a small bag , which he dumped on the table , and she looked at it in disbelief . |
| 37 | Later he confessed to me that he had been feeling a certain unease in the region of the colon ; when I asked him why on earth he had n't told me , he answered , ‘ I 'd never discuss my plumbing with ladies ! ’ |
| 38 | Harry turned back to Sam , with whom he had been having a private conversation on a quite different subject . |
| 39 | When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself . |
| 40 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
| 43 | IF he had been running a 100 metre sprint final , little Louis Stevens could n't have scampered any faster yesterday . |
| 44 | It was as if he had been running a high temperature or tripped out of his head on acid . |
| 45 | The other women often talked about young men they knew , and one of them had been taking a young man back to her flat during the evenings . |