Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 2 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 3 | Due to the fact that his marriage had been heading for the rocks ? |
| 4 | Beeson , the England captain , scored his first victory over the world No. 9 , Zarak Jahan Khan , with one of the finest performances of his career , and then complained about the remarks he claimed his opponent had been making during the rallies . |
| 5 | In mitigation Duncan Smith said Stevenson and his friend had been drinking in a pub and decided to take a car to get back home . |
| 6 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 7 | His bait had been lying in three inches of water ! |
| 8 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 9 | The conference of 1923 was the culmination of long planning on the part of Lord Darlington ; indeed , in retrospect , one can see clearly how his lordship had been moving towards this point from some three years or so before . |
| 10 | His thought had been moving towards an idea of nature , not unlike that found in some Stoic philosophers , as a complex of processes subject to their own natural law . |
| 11 | She had that envelope out again , the one that his Dad had been looking at last night . |
| 12 | Damn him if she would explain that the young man to whom he 'd referred had merely been a fellow Briton attending a conference on international computing , that they 'd exchanged nothing more than a few polite comments natural to fellow compatriots abroad , and that his arm had been lying across the back of the bench seats and not round her shoulders . |
| 13 | His mother had been singing with a company playing in a northern seaside town and he had lain on his bed in the boarding house , biting his nails , sunk under a terrible inertia . |
| 14 | When the young man was twenty he discovered that his mother had been boasting about how wonderful he was to all her friends . |
| 15 | His father , John William Gannon , said his son had been living with him since he split up with his wife in January . |
| 16 | He guessed at once that his son had been talking to Yuan , and even though the casual disclosure of information had been prearranged , he regretted the unavoidability of the confrontation which was about to occur . |
| 17 | He had been reading the notes of Wittgenstein , he said , who before his death had been working on the relation between the private , sensuous experience of colour and the universal language of colour words with which we appear to be able to communicate it . |
| 18 | Heaven knows what his victim had been eating before the battle , but it ended Seiguard 's reign of terror , permanently . |