Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 2 | In October , in a similarly light-hearted vein , he recounted to Virginia Woolf how he had been sitting in the wings of the Westminster Theatre ( where Sweeney Agonistes was playing ) and , on another occasion , lighting fireworks in the company of John Hayward and W. H. Auden . |
| 3 | After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop . |
| 4 | Sometimes , when he had been sitting near the side of the boat , an ill-considered back cast sent him flying into the water ; and often it was a close run thing before I could get the landing net under his sodden frame . |
| 5 | He arrived in Canterbury on 27 May 669 , having been escorted from Gaul , where he had been staying with Agilbert , by a representative of King Ecgberht , not of Oswiu ( HE IV , 1 ) . |
| 6 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 7 | Mr Koc remained in hospital for six days , and was then taken back to the small hotel where he had been staying since his arrival in London . |
| 8 | Mr Koc remained in hospital for six days , and was then taken back to the small hotel where he had been staying since his arrival in London . |
| 9 | Sometimes on Sundays he would take her to the fields where he had been helping with the harvest , to see the rabbits , or a nest of mice . |
| 10 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 11 | Philip rubbed the mist off the glass where he 'd been breathing on it . |
| 12 | Suddenly the penny dropped , and Meredith knew why he 'd been prowling about the airport like an angry lion . |
| 13 | All performed creditably and indeed Patel was such a revelation that onlookers must have wondered why he had been languishing in other teams for so much of the season . |