Example sentences of "[adv] he had 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | Ledeen noticed that the official was looking unusually tanned ; perhaps he had been skiing ? |
| 4 | He was speaking rather excitedly , and I thought perhaps he had been drinking . |
| 5 | It occurred to her that perhaps he had been drinking again . |
| 6 | Perhaps he had been trying to pluck up courage to tell Wycliffe himself . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The book was all he had been waiting for , and all was going according to plan . |
| 9 | Obviously he had been listening to the battle . |
| 10 | So he had been listening . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A moment later he had been dragging her , tray and all , through one of the doors into the vast ballroom . |
| 13 | Until now he had been using one loaned to him by Christian . |
| 14 | For several weeks now he had been chipping away at this problem of finding Elsie , slowly nagging it into submission . |
| 15 | Who would ever guess from the benign expression on his face that just a moment ago he had been exploding with anger ? |
| 16 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 17 | A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning . |
| 18 | Since then he had been trying to write the second book . |
| 19 | Up until then he had been acting temporarily in the post , awaiting the arrival of a more experienced businessman . |
| 20 | Since then he had been farming at Mullu , some fifteen miles outside Addis Ababa . |
| 21 | He had thus seldom been cooler or more controlled than now , as he told McGann that yes indeed he had been travelling , and no , it was none of the Society 's business where or about what pursuit . |
| 22 | This was partly because Picasso , like Braque , was at this time working largely from memory ; indeed he had been doing so for the past three years . |
| 23 | Previously he had been discussing the case of charging a trust on a debtor . |
| 24 | Previously he had been working as Senior Designer with Firth Carpets with whom he had gained eleven years experience . |
| 25 | Evidently he had been expecting Hazel to speak first and was somewhat at a loss . |
| 26 | For my father had opened his curtains and was sitting , shaved and in full uniform , on the edge of his bed from where evidently he had been watching the sky turn to dawn . |
| 27 | The consequent reduction in his income had meant that he could not afford to run a car any longer , and therefore he had been seeing less and less of his girlfriend , who lived 15 miles away . |