Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [been] [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shivered , remembering a dream where he had been riding north into the mountains with a woman who was not his wife . |
| 2 | Although he had been writing letters for months he was still only a quarter of the way through the names beginning with ‘ A , . |
| 3 | So much for Candy 's theory that he 'd been stalking Rory ! |
| 4 | Pascoe realized that he 'd been asking questions that Susan had n't answered . |
| 5 | There were 23 other pairs — all younger and all seeming to possess the speed of Linford Christie around the court — and , when my partner greeted me with the news that he had been undergoing physiotherapy for a dodgy back all week , I felt that our interest would be peripheral , to say the least . |
| 6 | A second and earlier poem Moliant Cadwallon ( ‘ In Praise of Cadwallon ’ ) , possibly by Cadwallon 's bard , Afan Ferddig , celebrates Cadwallon 's victorious progress against Eadwine ‘ the deceitful ’ after his return from Ireland , where he may have been in exile , though an alternative possibility is that he had been gathering reinforcements there . |
| 7 | Then on Easter Sunday Pringle confronted best pal Jason Ward , 20 , with the suggestion that he had been seeing Leanne . |
| 8 | When the code was broken , it was found that he had been taking placebo rather than ursodeoxycholic acid . |
| 9 | When one recalls that for decades geography was not recognized as a scholarly discipline , one can not perhaps be surprised that some scientists have unsuspectingly spent their whole careers studying geography — rather like the well-known character of Molière who did not know that he had been speaking prose all his life ! |
| 10 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
| 11 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 12 | A big farmer admitted that he had been selling cotton stalks to agricultural labourers , a new trend in the region . |
| 13 | But although ‘ Tuxy ’ Girdle may not have been a youthful Hooligan , it did emerge that he had been running whores and he received a substantial sentence of penal servitude for the assault on the man whom the gang had suspected of being a police spy . |
| 14 | To the end — or at least to his testimony in Poindexter 's trial , in 1990 — Reagan maintained he did not believe that he had been trading arms for hostages . |
| 15 | I heard a whisper that he 's been selling coins lately . |
| 16 | This will equally enable the Policyholder to replace the engine with one of similar type , capacity , age and size to the one lost — and therefore we will have provided him with indemnity under the Policy notwithstanding the fact that he has been paying premium on the value insured . |
| 17 | In the course of Abimelech 's questioning of Abraham it emerges that he has been claiming Sarah is his sister at every place they have been ! |
| 18 | Senna admitted yesterday after his third win that he has been having talks with Williams . |
| 19 | It can be contained by medication and he had been receiving treatment at a hospital in Salford as a voluntary patient just prior to his trip . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , Mr Bones takes his work home with him , and he 's been making members of the LUSH sick by bringing the skulls of baby birds to dinner . |
| 21 | ‘ And he 's been imprisoning IRA members , I understand . ’ |
| 22 | as if he had been considering Preston 's problems and this was his solution to them . |
| 23 | Edward was pale and she wondered if he 'd been eating pork crackling again which did n't agree with him , but he did n't seem sick . |
| 24 | Lewis began his Narnia stories for children in 1949 , but he had been publishing fiction for adults since Out of the Silent Planet ( 1938 ) , a mixture of space-fiction and theology that he was soon to extend into a trilogy , ending with That Hideous Strength ( 1945 ) . |
| 25 | But he 's been telling members of the Environmental Protection Committee this afternoon that he has every confidence in the steps that Thames Water has taken to prevent an recurrence of the events of eighteen months ago . |
| 26 | ‘ I could n't tell him for sure , but he 's been taking Vulcan out most days . |
| 27 | Curtis faced a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison because he had been growing Psilocybe cubensis , or ‘ magic mushrooms ’ as they were called in court . |
| 28 | ‘ I had to warn Monty about his drinking because he 'd been causing trouble , ’ MGM 's then chief of production , Dore Schary said to me . |
| 29 | Because he 'd been seeing psychiatrists since 1950 he fancied he was an expert on Freud and wanted to sit in on all our discussions . |
| 30 | Ted was awake and out here because he 'd been hearing Wayne speaking to him , and he was worried about his sanity . |