Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently he had been devising procedural systems for years , but nobody used them and everybody laughed at him . |
| 2 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
| 3 | Apparently he 'd been telling all the other English teachers about it and now they all wanted their classes to see and hear about Hadwick 's owl . |
| 4 | Well I mean I , apparently he 'd been giving this , this guy stick like all day . |
| 5 | Apparently he 's been working in Australia , on oil rigs , I believe . ’ |
| 6 | He did not know how long he had been sleeping but woke up hungry and decided to sneak into the kitchens for a tin of soup . |
| 7 | All night long he 'd been saying it . |
| 8 | How long he 'd been sleeping rough no one could tell . |
| 9 | I had no idea how long he 'd been standing there . |
| 10 | Isabel wondered how long he 'd been sitting there — intent , watchful , waiting . |
| 11 | Ledeen noticed that the official was looking unusually tanned ; perhaps he had been skiing ? |
| 12 | He was speaking rather excitedly , and I thought perhaps he had been drinking . |
| 13 | It occurred to her that perhaps he had been drinking again . |
| 14 | Perhaps he had been trying to pluck up courage to tell Wycliffe himself . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Perhaps he 'd been referring to someone else as well ? |
| 17 | Perhaps he 's been listening to it , too , and thinking of me . |
| 18 | The book was all he had been waiting for , and all was going according to plan . |
| 19 | All he has been trying to do is to trying to ensure that there 's been even-handed play here on all the stadium sites and it 's disgraceful that his name has been dragged into this ! |
| 20 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 21 | Obviously he had been listening to the battle . |
| 22 | So he had been listening . |
| 23 | So he 'd been looking for her . |
| 24 | So he 's been having at |
| 25 | Tonight he 'd been running swabs from the theatres down to the furnace room , in sealed bags and boxes that had been taped and marked with every imaginable hazard warning . |
| 26 | But lately he 'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave , Rampage . |
| 27 | But lately he has been losing rather too many important matches . |
| 28 | Lately he has been working on paintings of trees , large-sized drawings of nudes , painted low-reliefs in wood and a series of portraits of poets in which snippets from their work are inscribed ( Beats Alan Ginsberg and Gregory Corso appear in the show ) . |
| 29 | Darren had always been a good and well-behaved boy but once he had returned home he had been waking repeatedly in the night and been difficult to manage in the day . |
| 30 | I saw at once he 'd been drinking . |