Example sentences of "[subord] he had [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 2 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 3 | However these two bases are distinct and it is clear from Harman J 's judgment that even if he had been dealing with an express confidential information clause in an employment agreement he would have declined to have followed Faccenda . |
| 4 | He said abruptly , rather as if he had been thinking about something quite different all the time Nick had been talking — ‘ She may be a little upset , I 'm afraid . |
| 5 | The first arrivals were coming out of Customs now : two middle-aged couples , a crowd of kids who looked like students , a family with four children and grandma , a man who looked as if he had been drinking on the plane , his collar undone and his tie hanging . |
| 6 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 7 | The fans absolutely loved him and would throng the terraces to witness his extrovert pre-match warm-up sessions , in which he entertained and even amused the supporters before returning to the dressing-room as mud-stained and soiled as if he had been playing in a game . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He would have posed the same question if he had been sitting in her position . |
| 10 | If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now , and his shoes had mud on them , and Erlich did n't think Ruane would be impressed . |
| 11 | There were gulls flying and calling , but I had not disturbed the main colony , and I thought that I would have heard if he had been working below the cliffs at the north-west point . |
| 12 | He answered immediately , as if he had been standing by the instrument . |
| 13 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 14 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 15 | And who was it who said that when he agreed to play the Devil in the Witches of Eastwick , it was because he had been practising for the role all his life ? |
| 16 | At the same time , he knew that , while he had been living in Canada , she had been an activist for a period with the WLAA and had been outspoken on occasions such as the meeting of the deputation with Whitelaw and the television debates . |
| 17 | While he had been talking like an estate agent , getting his full value out of the situation , the full embarrassment of it had been dawning on Jenna . |
| 18 | It was a totally inappropriate thing to say , but she was a visitor , and the first since he had been staying at Fern Cottage on his own . |
| 19 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 20 | For it had been on a cold Sunday evening in the spring , after he had been looking over the house with the idea of buying it , that he had happened out of curiosity to ‘ pop in ’ , as fashionable Anglo-Catholics said , to Solemn Evensong and Benediction at St Basil 's at the end of the road . |
| 21 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |
| 22 | She met him again by chance on a train , after he had been lecturing at Bromley , and found him strangely excited , laughing like a manic-depressive and unable to sit still in the carriage . |
| 23 | The man got into the lift with her after he had been waiting in the foyer . |
| 24 | Then , in the same gentle tone she had heard Travis use when he had been speaking to the woman he loved , he murmured , ‘ Leith , my darling , I just ca n't keep it to myself any longer — do you mind ? ’ |
| 25 | But when he had been speaking of Katherine 's children , her opinion of him had begun to change , it sounded as if he did have a genuine sympathy for them and their plight . |
| 26 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 27 | Mark then told him of the occasion when he had been driving down O'Connell Street some twenty or so years before , when he had inadvertently misunderstood the hand signals of the policeman on traffic duty , and had moved off before he had been cleared to do so . |
| 28 | " I 'm awake , " she told him when he had been standing in silence beside her for some seconds . |
| 29 | He had spent most of the morning frowning , except when he had been talking to Sir William Paice and others . |
| 30 | He was more elated than when he had been shooting as an international for Great Britain : ‘ It 's like trying to get eight draws on the football pools — anybody can win . |