Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh det] [pron] 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 | She guessed what he had been thinking and jumped in with a diverting remark . |
4 | 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 ’ . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | Now Zen knew what he had been thinking . |
7 | They had watched her , in the council estate , they knew what she had been doing . |
8 | But his head cleared as the pain receded and he remembered what he had been going to ask Curtis . |
9 | After all those years of being told I was fat , I had the evidence in front of me and I suddenly realised what everyone had been going on about . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | In her disappointment Chesarynth missed what he had been saying . |