Example sentences of "[vb past] that he had [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 2 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , they have demonstrated activity in the visual areas during an imaging task , in the language areas during a verbal task and even , on one - occasion , in the higher visual areas of a schizophrenic patient who subsequently reported that he had been hallucinating . |
| 4 | He was also weaving and Adam realized that he had been drinking . |
| 5 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 6 | He asked himself , ‘ What is the direction upon which I have been depending ? ’ , and realized that he had been relying on a sense of what seemed ‘ natural ’ and ‘ right ’ to govern his actions . |
| 7 | A big farmer admitted that he had been selling cotton stalks to agricultural labourers , a new trend in the region . |
| 8 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 9 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 10 | At one minute it seemed that he had been having a fine old dream about Humans and banquets and the Frost Giantess frying on a spit . |
| 11 | Nabiyev , however , claimed that he had been touring the region to meet the population after recent mudslide disasters . |
| 12 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 13 | She guessed that he had been standing at the window or listening for the sound of her key in the lock . |
| 14 | When challenged to say what was on his mind , he replied that he had been wondering whether it would ever be given to him to make France great again , as it had been in the days of Charlemagne . |
| 15 | When one complainant alleged that he had been sitting in the Common Bench while the complainant had had his proper challenges to jurors refused , the auditors of complaints simply accepted his statement that he had been sitting on the bench not as a justice but as a well-wisher of the complainant 's opponent ( the prior of Sempringham ) . |
| 16 | And , it 's not a text but perhaps a verse that we could use as a , as a springboard is verse twenty seven , and it says at this point his disciples came and they marvelled that he had been speaking with a woman ! |
| 17 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 18 | Alfred Berry also confessed that he had been drinking , and hoped that a lenient view would be taken of his misconduct . |
| 19 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 20 | Which meant that he had been giving it considerable quiet thought . |
| 21 | William looked around at the stacks of cartons and bundles and felt that he had been wasting his time tidying the stock . |
| 22 | But in his heart he knew that he had been speaking to a troubled spirit , a spirit that had something terrible to confess . |
| 23 | And I knew that he had been watching the death of the tree too . |
| 24 | She knew that he had been doing without luncheon , and now he could afford some . |
| 25 | When McCormack was traced by police , he said that he had been drinking and ‘ carrying on ’ with the shopping trolleys . |
| 26 | The strain of trying to do everything himself was taking a toll ; after one almost incoherent letter he explained that he had been working from 8 a.m. until midnight , had not eaten and so ‘ was thoroughly depressed and vague ’ . |