Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] he 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 | and she said , I told you he had been licking , she said oh , even with the licking , that 's excellent I 'm very pleased . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | She guessed what he had been thinking and jumped in with a diverting remark . |
| 8 | 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 ’ . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Now Zen knew what he had been thinking . |
| 11 | But his head cleared as the pain receded and he remembered what he had been going to ask Curtis . |
| 12 | In her disappointment Chesarynth missed what he had been saying . |