Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , he 'd been ferreting in the records for a good while . ’ |
| 2 | Quick-thinking James , 20 , switched off the gas and collected a damp cloth , while Darren used the fire-fighting techniques he 'd been learning on his weekend course in Surrey to tackle the blaze . |
| 3 | I thought that , instead of speaking from his notes that he 'd been speaking from year after year , he was reassessing what he was doing . |
| 4 | One Saturday night he 'd been drinking in front of the telly when he decided to phone Sheila 's place . |
| 5 | He 'd been funny , telling stories against himself of fiascos he had survived in the theatre , and he 'd been flattering in a subtle way . |
| 6 | Presumably he 'd been watching from somewhere . |
| 7 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 8 | Now he was on his third circuit of the Bay : he 'd been ducking under bulldozers for almost an hour . |
| 9 | Suddenly the penny dropped , and Meredith knew why he 'd been prowling about the airport like an angry lion . |
| 10 | He 'd been sparing with words : it hurt to talk . |
| 11 | He 'd been fiddling with his desk , had n't he ? |
| 12 | After missing him during his stay in Geneva ( he 'd been presiding over Berlioz 's Benvenuto Cellini at the Grand Théâtre there ) , I finally succeeded in making contact with him in Rome , where he was conducting the orchestra of the Academia di Santa Cecilia in music by Schubert , Nino Rota and , not unexpectedly , Berlioz — the Symphonie fantastique . |
| 13 | And to think he 'd been agonizing about what line to take on Bartocci 's conspiracy theory ! |
| 14 | He 'd been staying at a bail hostel in Gloucester whilst waiting for the case to come to court . |
| 15 | And he 'd known it , all the time he 'd been trying to bed her . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Now she realised he 'd been hovering on the verges of her thoughts , just waiting for an opportunity to pounce . |
| 18 | It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for . |
| 19 | He 'd been hoping for windows , and a view over the bay or the town . |
| 20 | ( This was a circumstance paralleled at his own funeral , when the friends and relations of the woman he 'd been living with for part of the week since the early 1960s stole the show from us , the pathetic huddle of the family of his middle years . ) |
| 21 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 22 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 23 | Joey Bonanza paid his men pretty well , but not well enough for Jack Mahoney to be able to afford the address he 'd been living at . |
| 24 | He 'd been living in a £500-a-week hotel suite in Nottingham , spending £2,000 a month on clothes . |
| 25 | What would these people think , I wondered , if they knew he 'd been living like an Apache most of his life and right up until a little while ago ? |
| 26 | She heard him release the breath he 'd been holding in a sigh . |
| 27 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 28 | And if you read the scriptures , you 'll discover those where er he , you know er he was with Paul on one occasion , and er he 'd been eating with Gentiles and er then some Jews came up who believed that eating with er non-Jews even though they were followers of Jesus was wrong . |
| 29 | But after that Pete had sworn that he 'd touch nothing stronger than tapwater for the rest of the evening , and so far he 'd been sticking to it . |
| 30 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |