Example sentences of "he had be using " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |
| 2 | His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant . |
| 3 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 4 | The famous sequence when the helicopters gather in the sky before the great attack has music with it — very familiar music ! — but , do you know , I was so gripped by the power of Coppola 's image , the helicopters , the music , that it was n't until many , many hours afterwards that I realized what the music was he had been using . |
| 5 | He had been using the 1-iron , even though it was a par-5 , but he was afraid of dropping behind . |
| 6 | The fire was caused through the carelessness of one of the workmen in blowing out a bench lamp he had been using , and putting it in his drawer at 5.30 pm the previous night , without the fire being properly extinguished on the cotton wick . |
| 7 | He had been using an ingenious method . |
| 8 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |
| 9 | Alexander then placed two extra mirrors either side of the original mirror that he had been using . |
| 10 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
| 11 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 12 | All that those LA police offices had to say to get acquitted of beating Rodney King was that they believed he had been using PCP . |
| 13 | You see , he knew if they had taken him in and it was proved he had been using her , or , as a little bird told me , he had got her ready for shipment , they would have surely sent him along the line this time , and stripped the house of all his fine pieces . |
| 14 | The jangling of his friend 's bells and chains , which he had been using as an aid for navigation , had ceased abruptly . |
| 15 | Glancing over her shoulder she saw him fumbling frantically to hide the pencil and paper he had been using , and a moment later Jacques Devraux ducked under the hut 's front flap . |
| 16 | However , he had been using a slightly different definition of a black hole . |
| 17 | Until now he had been using one loaned to him by Christian . |