Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] he [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 2 | One particularly nasty German television journalist informed me that he had been waiting for a month and if anyone was getting near Ortega , it was him . |
| 3 | Later he confessed to me that he had been feeling a certain unease in the region of the colon ; when I asked him why on earth he had n't told me , he answered , ‘ I 'd never discuss my plumbing with ladies ! ’ |
| 4 | David told her that he had been thinking of working hard to get Amaranth Wilikins selected as the Conservative candidate for Arden in place of Sir Ralph . |
| 5 | But he looked up and smiled quite normally , and she did n't have the nerve to ask him if he had been listening . |
| 6 | The driver became suspicious when the man , dressed in a dark uniform approached him and asked him if he 'd been drinking . |
| 7 | But I 'm happy with my decision to rest him because he has been competing since January , and Ever is an improving horse . ’ |
| 8 | The man got into the lift with her after he had been waiting in the foyer . |
| 9 | ‘ Now do stop fussing around , ’ his wife said to him after he had been tossing and turning for about an hour . |
| 10 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |
| 11 | " I 'm awake , " she told him when he had been standing in silence beside her for some seconds . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The storyteller has already told us that he has been watching the road , his heart trembling with fear for the precious ark . |