Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He opted for the latter and at the end of 1989 he launched his debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ which sold very well , got a lot of radio play , and , most important of all , it introduced the songs he had been composing and singing at concerts to a wider public . |
| 2 | He bent to pick up the card he 'd been carrying then scowled at the deserted foyer . |
| 3 | All were second-hand , but they were far better than the stinking rags he had been wearing . |
| 4 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 5 | Come and sit down , ’ he invited her , indicating the elegant stone-coloured couch he had been occupying . |
| 6 | No answer suggested itself , however , and after a minute or two he became aware that as these thoughts whirled through his mind he had been staring down at the grilles confining the Chinese coolie families . |
| 7 | They were the words he had been wanting to hear and with an exultant roar , and with both arms at once around her , he pulled her close up to him . |
| 8 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 9 | In desperation , the previous week , he had ordered the children to select a favourite passage from books he had been reading with them , write it out in their best handwriting and then add some comments on what they enjoyed about the piece and about the book in general . |
| 10 | For some months he had been making his preparations by placing his men in key positions , so that if and when the moment came , the coup would be swift and , he hoped , bloodless . |
| 11 | While waiting around for five months he had been planning to do a story on a particular platoon of sixteen guys , which was very promising at first and the men enthusiastic and helpful . |
| 12 | For several months he had been finding rings of stones , surrounding a large boulder which was often topped with melted wax . |
| 13 | He 'd never seen anyone in Jubilee Wood in all the months he 'd been coming up here . |
| 14 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 15 | Truth had had to go by the board in the work he had been doing during the war and there seemed no point in insisting on using it again . |
| 16 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
| 17 | He seemed in a hurry to distance himself from the work he had been doing . |
| 18 | William Tidbury stated that on 11 December he had been working until late at a local farm ( this had already been borne out by the farmer ) . |
| 19 | Before leaving England he had been hankering after his American roots , not only in those sections of Ash-Wednesday which recall the New England coast , but also in his prose , invoking , for instance , his old master Josiah Royce , who was now mostly forgotten , ‘ but a great philosopher in his day ’ . |
| 20 | Abruptly , Ratagan threw the chunk of bread he had been gnawing into the fire . |
| 21 | His brow cleared after the terrific mental exercise he 'd been putting in . |
| 22 | He banged down the rucksack and the basket he had been carrying and looked without liking at the unencumbered Beuno . |
| 23 | ‘ Come in , Master Clerk , ’ he called , throwing down the manuscript he had been studying . |
| 24 | She was staring at him , with her great golden eyes , and her expression was so sad and apprehensive that the sight of it shocked him into asking the question he had been trying to ignore . |
| 25 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 26 | But what was wrong with the metal wood he had been employing off the tee ? |
| 27 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 28 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 29 | With a curse Withel despatched the assassin he had been fighting . |
| 30 | One moment he had been looking forward to a happy and wealthy retirement and now , minutes later , he was a condemned criminal with only a few hours left to live . |