Example sentences of "he had been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 32 | 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 . |
| 33 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
| 34 | He had been travelling for eight years and was now heading south towards Delhi , the capital of the Sultan of Hindustan . |
| 35 | She had long since left the path and he had been travelling across rough land for some time — there was a high trail of dust behind the vehicle . |
| 36 | He had been driving at high speed when me helicopter flew past him . |
| 37 | In the second half of 1966 and throughout 1967 , rhetorical attacks on American policy in Vietnam , which he had been making since 1963 , intensified . |
| 38 | He had been running in international events since the Olympics of 1932 . ’ |
| 39 | After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop . |
| 40 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 ’ . |
| 43 | De Gaulle recognized that the crisis that he had been anticipating since 1946 had finally arrived . |
| 44 | 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 . |