Example sentences of "he [vb past] [be] [verb] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the official press conference today , Brian Horton said he 'd been looking at the young twenty-one year old for quite a while . |
| 2 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |
| 3 | When I got into work on the big day I found out he 'd been arrested at the weekend . |
| 4 | All he did was remain at the point where they first met . |
| 5 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 6 | Many forest landowners were in fact heavily amerced by Passelewe : in 1264 the Abbot of Bruern paid 500 marks for acquittance of all the trespasses of which he had been convicted at the Oxford Forest Eyre in 1245 . |
| 7 | He had been deafened at the age of ten and " spoke fairly well . " |
| 8 | He had been writing at the big desk , and had come round it to examine the patient . |
| 9 | Nothing was said , but his Lieutenant knew he had been reprieved at the last minute . |
| 10 | But if he had been in the water for some time , it was unlikely that he had been killed at the spot where his body had fetched up , and equally unlikely that the weapon which killed him was there to find . |
| 11 | He had been placed at the head of the table , a Solomon come to judgement , but a far from happy one . |
| 12 | He had been trained at the Douai seminary and had been taught the art not only of argument but also of secrecy . |
| 13 | He had been interrogated at the Comando di Legione in Parma before being locked up in the Citadella to await removal to Germany . |
| 14 | He had been smiling at the screen , an expression which fell with such abruptness from his face when he looked at the doorway that Zambia was convinced SHe heard it hit the floor with a crack . |
| 15 | All round his dingy housing-association flat in Stoke Newington , close to Amhurst Road , where he had been arrested at the beginning of the 1970s , were the signs of the new affluence . |
| 16 | He wished that he could have listened to their conversation , but he would not have made much of it if he had been sitting at the next table . |
| 17 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 18 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 19 | In 1302–3 his son and heir John alleged that he had been murdered at the instigation of Walter Langton , bishop of Coventry [ q.v . ] . |
| 20 | He had been working at the Council depot as an attendant when Joe offered him the job , and he had been very pleased to make the change . |
| 21 | She guessed that he had been standing at the window or listening for the sound of her key in the lock . |