Example sentences of "[conj] he had been [v-ing] at " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Tom told his grandmother he was moving out of her house and confessed — because since the accident he had also stopped lying , could not be bothered with prevarication — that he had been busking at stations , she told him she was horrified , she was disappointed in him . |
| 2 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 3 | She guessed that he had been standing at the window or listening for the sound of her key in the lock . |
| 4 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 5 | ‘ No it 's not ’ , said a Scots Nationalist friend one day — very rude to me — ‘ it 's not cosmopolitan , it 's colonial ’ , and he had been looking at me and thinking ‘ here 's one of those damned Englishmen sponging on the Scots , making a good thing out of them ’ . |
| 6 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 7 | He wished that he could have listened to their conversation , but he would not have made much of it if he had been sitting at the next table . |
| 8 | It was a totally inappropriate thing to say , but she was a visitor , and the first since he had been staying at Fern Cottage on his own . |
| 9 | She met him again by chance on a train , after he had been lecturing at Bromley , and found him strangely excited , laughing like a manic-depressive and unable to sit still in the carriage . |