Example sentences of "he had been [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 3 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 4 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 5 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 6 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 11 | And in the 1930s he had been unforgiving towards these friends of his youth . |
| 12 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 13 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |
| 14 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 15 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 16 | He had said he had been fighting with another man . |
| 17 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |
| 18 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 19 | And one of the oil men to whom he had been talking at that seminar in Florence had told him that the Chinese enterprise zone ( Shenzhen ) , just over the border from Hong Kong , was still working . |
| 20 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 21 | Perhaps he had been standing at that spot , gazing out over the river towards the mountains or maybe with bowed head , grieving for his lover . |