Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | But lately he 'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave , Rampage . |
| 2 | ‘ He 'd been wearing this over the shirt he wore for the sitting , ’ Edwards said , ‘ and at the end of the last sitting just as he was leaving , as an afterthought , he said , ‘ Oh you better have this ’ and took it off and gave it to me , like the end of a football match . ’ |
| 3 | Well I mean I , apparently he 'd been giving this , this guy stick like all day . |
| 4 | ‘ From the expression on Rik 's face , you would think he 'd been doing this sort of stuff all his life , ’ Gerald says . |
| 5 | He had been conducting this little enterprise since the age of twelve , wearing false moustaches and passing for sixteen . |
| 6 | He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say . |
| 7 | He had been dreading this . |
| 8 | But he knew that he was right and , much more , he felt that he was good , that he had been given this chance to act well , that he must take it and to take it would get him off on a new and better path ; while to succumb would be the broad and easy road to hell . |
| 9 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 10 | However , it got so bad one day — I think he had been discussing this with his father because he used to go home sometimes at the weekends and come back to the flat on Monday — and he came in one day and said , ‘ OK , it 's going to be cabaret ’ . |
| 11 | James got to Corunna , where the whole force had been supposed to rendezvous and pick up Ormonde , in time to see the last battered casualties arrive , grateful perhaps that , so soon after his own recent sufferings in the Mediterranean , he had been spared this further ordeal . |
| 12 | As he entered the study , Stephen reflected on how fortunate he had been to obtain this man 's services . |
| 13 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route everyday for the last ten years . |
| 14 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |