Example sentences of "he [verb] [been] [v-ing] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he 'd been going to hang up on me , something made him change his mind and could be it was something I said . |
| 2 | Perhaps he had been trying to pluck up courage to tell Wycliffe himself . |
| 3 | This was the sight that Bill Brice saw when he smilingly turned round , holding the fresh bottle of sherry which he had been kneeling to get out from under the window-seat . |
| 4 | For ages he had been meaning to call in at a place down by the Elephant and Castle where they sold gramophone parts , but it was not until this morning that he had finally got around to it . |
| 5 | turn to Mr Potter I think he 's been dying to get back on this so |