Example sentences of "he had [adv] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watched Gerald Kaufman buy a copy of the Evening Standard ; he had probably been lunching with the BBC . |
| 2 | He had also been talking for ages to Broadman , and Ymor had seen a piece of paper change hands . |
| 3 | One day a child came home from Sunday School declaring that he had just been hearing about how Moses crossed the Red Sea with tanks and Bailey bridges . |
| 4 | Now she saw that he had just been dealing with the easy , practical part first . |
| 5 | Over his face quivered shades of the sniggers he had just been enjoying with his mates . |
| 6 | He had a half-beard and he looked dirty , as if he had just been working with hammers and bricks and wood and chisels . |
| 7 | He brought with him his own group of masons , and a letter of introduction from Humphrey Lovell , the queen 's master mason , according to which he had previously been working for Sir Francis Knollys [ q.v. ] , probably at Caversham House , near Reading . |
| 8 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 9 | So Trumbull started moving the camera in and out , and stopped the lens down to a tiny aperture for maximum depth of field ( he had already been experimenting with zoom lenses for the cockpit readouts in other sequences ) . |
| 10 | He had reportedly been pressing for the USA to distance itself from the peace negotiations and he was therefore opposed to a Washington venue ; he was also known to support a Middle Eastern venue to emphasize the regional , as opposed to the international , nature of the conflict . |
| 11 | Mr Fitton yesterday made clear that he had always been acting in an independent capacity in the offer for Eagle , and that it had no connection with Braithwaite . |
| 12 | And of course Gramps had never left his wife — because he had never been going to , because he had n't been the father ; but that was obviously the story Marie O'Donnell had put about — the story her family believed . |
| 13 | He had merely been playing with her . |
| 14 | He had certainly been failing in his duty towards Dimity . |
| 15 | I heard some uncertain footsteps and he lurched on , waving a jug of orange juice , which was not the drink he had obviously been consuming in huge quantities . |
| 16 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |
| 17 | ‘ He had obviously been brooding on this incident some years back , ’ said Mr Denny . |
| 18 | He had obviously been arguing with it — when Masklin walked up he glared at him and said , ‘ It wo n't do what I tell it ! ’ |