Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spread the trousers carefully on the large deal table , put the towel with which he 'd been drying the luncheon dishes carefully on top of the faded tweed , smoothed it into place and began to poke out the creases with an old iron . |
| 2 | ‘ He 'd been drinking a lot . |
| 3 | He chuckled to himself , put down the cup he 'd been drinking the water from , wiped his lips . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps I should sell the place and be done with it , ’ he said with an abruptness that showed he 'd been considering the idea for some time . |
| 5 | All the same , he wished he 'd paid a little more attention to what had gone on when he 'd been leaving the depot so that he could have spotted when they carried out that trick with the form he was supposed to have dropped . |
| 6 | She thought she knew what might have been on his mind , because he 'd been writing a letter in the Lounge . |
| 7 | He 'd been telling the truth . |
| 8 | He felt that if he 'd been wearing a gun , this man would have known . |
| 9 | He 'd been adjusting the driving mirror and he 'd only taken his eyes off the road for a moment . |
| 10 | He 'd been fighting the prophet , but every time he 'd laid hands on the man , he 'd changed shape , become a cloud , a venomous snake , a wildcat , a mad woman . |
| 11 | He 'd been working too hard in college , and even harder since he 'd been running the farm . |
| 12 | Springsteen was out but there were tell-tale signs that he 'd been ruling the roost and no evidence that he was pining for my return . |
| 13 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 14 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 15 | The man who killed officer worker Anna McGurk has told a jury he 'd been having an affair with her before her death . |
| 16 | At that time , and erm she had n't known anything about it , because he had looked after the benefit , and she thought he 'd been paying the rent . |
| 17 | He 'd been making a living , that was all , and now he was going to swing for it because the fucking book would n't fucking burn ! |
| 18 | Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part . |
| 19 | He had been scouring a pan , but now put it on another jerry-can to drain , alongside two clean plates . |
| 20 | ‘ He had been acting a bit strangely recently . ’ |
| 21 | He had been calculating the girl as a mathematical entry in the equation . |
| 22 | He found he had been speaking the memory out into the night and among the bleak cages around . |
| 23 | He had been drinking a lot of beer , but he says he heard cries . |
| 24 | Would the ship 's company have been saved if he had been singing a hit from the music-halls ? |
| 25 | Mr Clare told his son he had been saving the money he would have spent on his university education for him . |
| 26 | All afternoon he had been monitoring the progress of the Peace Demo from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square and plotting the advance of the National Front from the opposite direction . |
| 27 | Nabiyev , however , claimed that he had been touring the region to meet the population after recent mudslide disasters . |
| 28 | He had been using the 1-iron , even though it was a par-5 , but he was afraid of dropping behind . |
| 29 | He had been trying a pipe recently , but was not making much progress . |
| 30 | I picked one of them up and was struck to the heart , for it was obvious that he had been writing a lot of poetry , all of it , so it seemed to me , very good . |