Example sentences of "he had [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sure I would , ’ and her brother turned on the Sunday game he had been listening to when Moran entered the yard . |
| 2 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 3 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 4 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 5 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 6 | Obviously he had been listening to the battle . |
| 7 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 8 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 9 | But in his heart he knew that he had been speaking to a troubled spirit , a spirit that had something terrible to confess . |
| 10 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 11 | Then , in the same gentle tone she had heard Travis use when he had been speaking to the woman he loved , he murmured , ‘ Leith , my darling , I just ca n't keep it to myself any longer — do you mind ? ’ |
| 12 | The officer 's life was ‘ almost certainly ’ saved by the fact that one bullet became embedded in a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 13 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 14 | His life had almost certainly been saved by the fact that one bullet had hit a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had been coming to Hawaii since he was thirteen and competing since he was seventeen . |
| 17 | On their wedding night he was drunk , and she was affectionate and clinging , and it was as hopeless as he had been predicting to himself . |
| 18 | He had spent most of the morning frowning , except when he had been talking to Sir William Paice and others . |
| 19 | He had been talking to a tall girl with white-blonde hair , but suddenly he turned his head slightly and looked straight at Maria , and every muscle in her body clenched in furious , shocked resistance . |
| 20 | There can be little doubt that Picasso was excited by the work that Braque brought back to Paris from l'Estaque in which he was drawing such original answers from the questions he had been putting to Cézanne 's art . |
| 21 | When she began to protest , he claimed he was getting help on an out-patient basis , and that he had been going to AA . |
| 22 | He had been going to France , she recalled . |
| 23 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |