Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 2 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 3 | He was n't wearing the suit he 'd been wearing in Furnival Gardens . |
| 4 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 5 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 6 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 7 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 8 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 9 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 10 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 11 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 12 | Five minutes later he came in trying to tell tell us jokes and each time he 'd been paddling through this brake fluid and the carpet is just you know , brains |
| 13 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 14 | Molotov concluded the parallel negotiations which he had been conducting with German representatives and thus secured two years grace while partitioning Poland with Nazi Germany . |
| 15 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 16 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 17 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 18 | He had been experimenting with dental floss , which was multi-stranded but then broke when rubbed against rocks or weeds . |
| 19 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 20 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 21 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 22 | He had been dealing with human nature all his life ; he should have been able to recognise the symptoms before now . |
| 23 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 24 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 25 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 26 | Essentially the case involved a youth leader of the Red Cross , who admitted joining the Red Cross to bring him closer to young girls , whom he had been abusing for thirty years . |
| 27 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 28 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 29 | The blinding headaches he had been experiencing in recent weeks were taking their toll , and he looked grey and drawn when he arrived home . |
| 30 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |