Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] he have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered the dream where he had been riding north with Jinneth into the mountains , and he was sure that something of that figure had been Jenny . |
| 2 | Horatia fled and Rossmayne went back to the window where he had been standing when the bad dream had begun . |
| 3 | A moment later he had been dragging her , tray and all , through one of the doors into the vast ballroom . |
| 4 | Who would ever guess from the benign expression on his face that just a moment ago he had been exploding with anger ? |
| 5 | When , drawn by a magnetism she was unable to resist , she looked his way again , he was gone , the place where he 'd been standing now occupied by a stout lady in an unbecoming striped sundress . |
| 6 | Not only that : his was the round , jolly face he had seen in the window the day he had been hit on the head outside the room where he had been watching the Occultation of the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 7 | All night long he 'd been saying it . |
| 8 | Alan Slade told the court how he had been approaching a road junction when he saw a man and a woman arguing . |
| 9 | A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning . |
| 10 | He pushed away from the wall where he had been lounging and advanced towards her , studying the shock on her face with mocking eyes . |
| 11 | A check showed that the area where he had been working was contaminated and it was cleaned . |
| 12 | A squirrel skittering on the branches of a lilac drew the Colonel 's attention upwards , away from the ground where he had been digging the soil around his feet with the tip of his walking stick . |
| 13 | The man lashed out with a rusted chain but Whitlock managed to roll clear before it struck the ground where he had been lying . |
| 14 | As I crouched against the wall which offered some protection against the rain , the mortar team Corporal got up from the grass where he had been sitting and , crossing over to the small pile of H.E . |
| 15 | Philip rubbed the mist off the glass where he 'd been breathing on it . |
| 16 | When they arrived back at the butterwood where he had been sleeping he showed her a white fungus around its base . |
| 17 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 18 | Wee Charlie , aged seven and the youngest in the family , appeared out of the parlour where he 'd been playing . |
| 19 | ‘ Hello , love , ’ said her father , coming in from the kitchen where he had been shelling the succulent fresh prawns that would form part of a cold seafood and salad lunch , before the hot turkey dinner this evening . |
| 20 | ‘ Thank you , General , ’ said the Doctor , returning from the quiet corner of the camp where he had been working . |
| 21 | For a year now he 's been trying to avoid packaged and drilled TV appearances , and enduring repetitive questions from bemused Europeans about sampling or acid house But he 's still managed to have some fun . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He thought that he had heard the house door close : McAllister must have left for a stroll , or perhaps even a visit up West , and it would be safe for him to leave the surgery where he had been reading Mr H. G. Wells 's scientific romance The Time Machine , and return to the comfort of his armchair . |
| 25 | Straining to see , he caught the sound of the pin tinkling to the floor a second before the metal object struck the wall of the container where he 'd been crouching . |
| 26 | The defendant had been told by the police to leave the scene outside a party where he had been swearing and shouting , which he grudgingly did , continuing to use foul language . |
| 27 | Lafontant arrived openly from the Dominican Republic where he had been living [ see p. 37073 ] , despite orders from the Minister of the Interior , Joseph Maxi for his arrest . |
| 28 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |
| 29 | Keith Hanger returned to the prison where he 'd been serving his sentence last night . |
| 30 | They heard how he had always been an ungrateful and dangerous child , violently attacking another boy , and finally running away from the house where he had been working . |