Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] he [verb] [be] [v-ing] " 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 | Until now he had been using one loaned to him by Christian . |
| 3 | Until then he 'd been expecting Blagg , and he might know exactly what he 'd left . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Party , party , ’ she yelled out to break the spell and Hosanna ran from where he had been sitting watching her . |
| 5 | He made his way easily to the door and was about to close it when he caught sight of something tucked into the corner of the car between two wooden containers , out of sight from where he had been sitting earlier . |
| 6 | Since then he had been farming at Mullu , some fifteen miles outside Addis Ababa . |
| 7 | Since then he had been trying to write the second book . |
| 8 | In Midnight Run he was fine , but since then he 's been cranking them out , turning in performances which are almost parodic rehashes of the masculine confusions and bullish challenges of his past roles . |
| 9 | Since then he 's been fighting to prove his innocence . |
| 10 | Since then he 's been waiting for him higher up on various tracks . |
| 11 | We met at lunch , once , and since then he has been bombarding my house with letters and phone calls . |
| 12 | Mr Duff said : ‘ His life all went wrong in 1986 but since then he has been putting it back together again . ’ |
| 13 | Some time later , she made her way back to where he had been sitting . |
| 14 | All the same , he wished he 'd paid a little more attention to what had gone on when he 'd been leaving the depot so that he could have spotted when they carried out that trick with the form he was supposed to have dropped . |
| 15 | I saw at once he 'd been drinking . |