Example sentences of "that he had [been] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 ’ . |
| 32 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 33 | He told Heatley that he had been walking along the footpath when the police had made a baton charge . |
| 34 | When she began to protest , he claimed he was getting help on an out-patient basis , and that he had been going to AA . |
| 35 | She guessed that he had been standing at the window or listening for the sound of her key in the lock . |
| 36 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |
| 37 | Robert denied a defence suggestion that he had been advancing on his brother and his family with his knife when he was shot . |
| 38 | Both Himmler and Hitler disapproved of all this dangerous activity — they needed him — and Heydrich often had to sneak back to Berlin on late-night transport planes to cover the fact that he had been battling with the RAF instead of with the enemies of the State at RHSA headquarters . |
| 39 | De Gaulle recognized that the crisis that he had been anticipating since 1946 had finally arrived . |
| 40 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 41 | When one complainant alleged that he had been sitting in the Common Bench while the complainant had had his proper challenges to jurors refused , the auditors of complaints simply accepted his statement that he had been sitting on the bench not as a justice but as a well-wisher of the complainant 's opponent ( the prior of Sempringham ) . |
| 42 | When one complainant alleged that he had been sitting in the Common Bench while the complainant had had his proper challenges to jurors refused , the auditors of complaints simply accepted his statement that he had been sitting on the bench not as a justice but as a well-wisher of the complainant 's opponent ( the prior of Sempringham ) . |
| 43 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |