Example sentences of "[noun sg] he had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 2 | Come and sit down , ’ he invited her , indicating the elegant stone-coloured couch he had been occupying . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
| 8 | He seemed in a hurry to distance himself from the work he had been doing . |
| 9 | Abruptly , Ratagan threw the chunk of bread he had been gnawing into the fire . |
| 10 | He banged down the rucksack and the basket he had been carrying and looked without liking at the unencumbered Beuno . |
| 11 | ‘ Come in , Master Clerk , ’ he called , throwing down the manuscript he had been studying . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 ? |
| 14 | But what was wrong with the metal wood he had been employing off the tee ? |
| 15 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | With a curse Withel despatched the assassin he had been fighting . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | This was the moment he had been waiting for since his ordination . |
| 20 | But he found that the job that awaited him there was several rungs lower than the job he had been holding down in the UK . |
| 21 | Roddy Lou Thai was not pleased at all to be questioned by two representatives of the repressive Imperialist Government , under whose chauvinistic wing he had been living for four years . |
| 22 | Police said last night that Tel , who was driving alone , was not given a B-test because there was no suspicion he had been drinking . |
| 23 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 24 | But Jones told the court he had been looking after the alcohol at the party and collecting money from people who wanted to take some of the drink . |
| 25 | He also told the court he had been acting in accordance with an order from Allied Forces Headquarters on 14 May 1945 . |
| 26 | In his own mitigation Harty said the previous day he had been clearing out his garage and come across long forgotten fishing tackle . |
| 27 | He was wearing the crumpled suit he had been wearing on the day Robert first saw him in the pub . |
| 28 | Al-Kadir , the timid and vacillating ruler of Valencia , capitulated without delay , restoring the tribute he had been paying to El Cid before his second banishment . |
| 29 | She sat on the opposite couchette and picked up the paperback he had been reading . |
| 30 | The fire was caused through the carelessness of one of the workmen in blowing out a bench lamp he had been using , and putting it in his drawer at 5.30 pm the previous night , without the fire being properly extinguished on the cotton wick . |