Example sentences of "[pron] he had been doing " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you know , you do a half halt before asking for a transition , because it 's more polite than shouting ‘ Oi ! ’ , but Skipper seemed to forget about the legs bit and would go into whatever pace was faster than the one he had been doing . |
| 2 | All he could remember was that TOWs were shipped at some point ; that ‘ the price asked for the military was twelve million two ’ ; that the aircraft could turn round and abort the delivery if the hostages were not released , which he thought was ‘ a most unusual thing ’ ; and that it was definitely not ‘ the Khomeini ’ with whom he had been doing business . |
| 3 | In between these demonstrations of loyalty and discipline under fire he had said nothing to clarify the Government 's policy for combating inflation other than that there was no alternative to what he had been doing . |
| 4 | Nicholas looked at what he had been doing , which was nothing very much , and laid down the stone and the knife and , clasping his knees , looked at Diniz . |
| 5 | As he took an eager gulp from his glass , he decided that Hank ought to tell his mother what he had been doing . |
| 6 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 7 | And he listened , he would n't really say what he had been doing , but later he showed me some of the things he 'd done in the Hebrides . |
| 8 | Listening to them , Folly realised that she had never got around to asking Luke what he had been doing at Lexy 's flat the night before . |
| 9 | It was almost as if he had spent three weeks thinking over what he had been doing and worked it all out . |
| 10 | He stamped his feet like a restless pony , obviously anxious to get back to whatever he had been doing . |