Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] been standing " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where he had been standing had been a turning point for cars once upon a time — when there were still cars in the world — but this had never been a place for modern things . |
| 2 | She guessed that he had been standing at the window or listening for the sound of her key in the lock . |
| 3 | What had happened in Amsterdam at the Strickers ' had stunned him — as if he had been standing too long ‘ against a church wall ’ . |
| 4 | He answered immediately , as if he had been standing by the instrument . |
| 5 | I WOULD like to say how much I have enjoyed listening to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock , right , while he has been standing in for Jimmy Young on Radio 2 . |
| 6 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 7 | " I 'm awake , " she told him when he had been standing in silence beside her for some seconds . |
| 8 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |