Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [pers pn] had [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ashley stopped whatever he had been going to say next with a humourless laugh . |
| 2 | In June , Roland found what he had been looking for . |
| 3 | Silas told me he had been taking you round the sheep . ’ |
| 4 | He told me he had been studying poetry with Enright , and that he wrote poetry too . |
| 5 | ‘ Antonia told me she had been watching Mellor on TV in the run up to the General Election and said she had suddenly been taken over by this incredible desire for him and that she badly wanted to meet him . |
| 6 | A client who hated her job told me she had been considering other options for two years , without taking any positive action . |
| 7 | and she said , I told you he had been licking , she said oh , even with the licking , that 's excellent I 'm very pleased . |
| 8 | Tuesday — could it really be only Tuesday when now every cell of her body was alight with a feedback intelligence that told her she had been waiting for this man all her life … |
| 9 | He told her he had been thinking of the text he had just learnt , ‘ Prepare to meet thy God , ’ and perhaps he might die tonight , and he did not know if he was ready , if his sins were all forgiven … |
| 10 | Jack 's heart lurched as he saw the ambulances and the busy , functional building and he immediately forgot everything they had been saying . |
| 11 | She guessed what he had been thinking and jumped in with a diverting remark . |
| 12 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 13 | He looked at his eyes and his ears and his teeth and his droppings and the ends of his claws and he inquired what he had been eating . |
| 14 | Now Zen knew what he had been thinking . |
| 15 | They had watched her , in the council estate , they knew what she had been doing . |
| 16 | But his head cleared as the pain receded and he remembered what he had been going to ask Curtis . |
| 17 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 18 | In her disappointment Chesarynth missed what he had been saying . |