Example sentences of "he [vb past] [be] [v-ing] [prep] that " in BNC.

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1 He 'd been looking for that for ages .
2 And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour .
3 She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night .
4 And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working .
5 But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him .
6 Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover .
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