Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 2 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 3 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 4 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
| 5 | Truth had had to go by the board in the work he had been doing during the war and there seemed no point in insisting on using it again . |
| 6 | Abruptly , Ratagan threw the chunk of bread he had been gnawing into the fire . |
| 7 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 8 | But what was wrong with the metal wood he had been employing off the tee ? |
| 9 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 10 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 11 | This was the moment he had been waiting for since his ordination . |
| 12 | Roddy Lou Thai was not pleased at all to be questioned by two representatives of the repressive Imperialist Government , under whose chauvinistic wing he had been living for four years . |
| 13 | Also , the mic was n't giving off the warm , mucky sound he 'd been going for . |
| 14 | But Jones told the court he had been looking after the alcohol at the party and collecting money from people who wanted to take some of the drink . |
| 15 | He also told the court he had been acting in accordance with an order from Allied Forces Headquarters on 14 May 1945 . |
| 16 | He was wearing the crumpled suit he had been wearing on the day Robert first saw him in the pub . |
| 17 | He was n't wearing the suit he 'd been wearing in Furnival Gardens . |
| 18 | Al-Kadir , the timid and vacillating ruler of Valencia , capitulated without delay , restoring the tribute he had been paying to El Cid before his second banishment . |
| 19 | Now was obviously not the time to confront Feargal and ask what the devil he 'd been talking about . |
| 20 | The officer 's life was ‘ almost certainly ’ saved by the fact that one bullet became embedded in a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 21 | His life had almost certainly been saved by the fact that one bullet had hit a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 22 | One Saturday night he 'd been drinking in front of the telly when he decided to phone Sheila 's place . |
| 23 | Last night he had been suffering from jet lag ; now he seemed to be fully recovered , and power flowed from him in waves . |
| 24 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 25 | ‘ Sure I would , ’ and her brother turned on the Sunday game he had been listening to when Moran entered the yard . |
| 26 | ( This was a circumstance paralleled at his own funeral , when the friends and relations of the woman he 'd been living with for part of the week since the early 1960s stole the show from us , the pathetic huddle of the family of his middle years . ) |
| 27 | And just in case any men out there still need to be convinced that cleanliness is next to Robert Redfordness , how about the tale of a friend of mine who was desperate to impress a woman he had been pursuing for weeks . |
| 28 | She heard him release the breath he 'd been holding in a sigh . |
| 29 | All that bottled-up vitriol for the man he 'd been waiting for had actually been for her . |
| 30 | as if whatever he had done had cut him off from the mercy he had been seeking for so long . |