Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [v-ing] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been screwing all day and he 'd walk into the camp fucking going |
| 2 | In ‘ Downtown Beirut ’ , the boozery next door to the infamous ‘ Village Idiot ’ on 10th St. , ( where two Pogues ' albums continually rotate on the juke box ) , a dastardly plan was hatched to kidnap Strummer from out of the ‘ Seven B ’ bar , where he 'd been drinking all week , and substitute him onstage with Joe Hurley . |
| 3 | But lately he 'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave , Rampage . |
| 4 | He 'd been expecting tight security at the entrance , but in the event the gates were open and unmanned , and a passing employee directed him along a concrete road leading to the garage where a man in blue overalls was washing one of the Fiat saloons . |
| 5 | He had big banks of lights and speakers on either side of his console with some lower-level relays here in the ballroom ; he 'd been running some smoke and dry ice earlier , and some of it still hung in the air and gave the lighted area beyond the doorways the effect of some offworld film set . |
| 6 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 7 | anyway their Bev 's husband he 'd been doing some work plus some money they dropped on these spindles , so she was telling me |
| 8 | ‘ From the expression on Rik 's face , you would think he 'd been doing this sort of stuff all his life , ’ Gerald says . |
| 9 | He had been drinking all night long , beer and whisky . |
| 10 | He had been drinking all day with Slatter on 3 April , they had consumed some fourteen or fifteen quarts of ale , they had entered the Chequers , where they had been involved in an argument with two large men he now knew to be Hewett and Charlton . |
| 11 | Then Corporal Auriega , a fat Spaniard who sweated all the time , arrived back from town where he had been drinking all evening with his friends . |
| 12 | It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled . |
| 13 | He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say . |
| 14 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |
| 15 | His beard was grey-white , but discoloured yellow around his mouth as if he had been drooling thin custard . |
| 16 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 17 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 18 | ‘ I believe he had been planning that warning for some time . |
| 19 | He had been sitting all evening in exactly the spot from which the gun had been fired . |
| 20 | He had been paying more attention than she thought . |
| 21 | He had been doing Limited Edition Club books from the beginning . |
| 22 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 23 | He had been doing voluntary work for young people , and they used to enjoy going dancing and out to a club for a drink on Saturday nights . |
| 24 | He had been doing excellent business from the Lionisers , so good that he was beneficent enough to feel sorry for poor old Cedric . |
| 25 | ‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders . |
| 26 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route everyday for the last ten years . |
| 27 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |
| 28 | Yuan looked down , then broached the subject he had been avoiding all evening . |
| 29 | Some time later , when they were walking back and approaching her apartment block , Luke touched her elbow lightly , startling her , since he had been avoiding physical contact with her all day . |