Example sentences of "a [noun sg] he had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Robert Burrows first became a Christian he had been working on a banana plantation , but some time after his conversion a Salvationist family gave him work on their dairy farm . |
| 2 | And just in case any men out there still need to be convinced that cleanliness is next to Robert Redfordness , how about the tale of a friend of mine who was desperate to impress a woman he had been pursuing for weeks . |
| 3 | When tea was brought he took out a book he had been reading over his lunch . |
| 4 | Herbert passed me a note he had been writing . |
| 5 | Eventually the pair connected , and Knuckles presented Owens with a track he had been working on with Japanese musician Satoshi Tomii . |