Example sentences of "he had [be] [v-ing] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sirhan was immediately arrested , and apparently confessed to his interrogators that he had been acting on his own to avenge the Haram al-Sharif massacre . |
| 2 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 3 | The first arrivals were coming out of Customs now : two middle-aged couples , a crowd of kids who looked like students , a family with four children and grandma , a man who looked as if he had been drinking on the plane , his collar undone and his tie hanging . |
| 4 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 5 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 6 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 7 | The last few days he had been getting on her nerves . |
| 8 | Rafiq , for example , who had not changed out of the grubby overalls that he had been wearing on the day of Robert 's interview , seemed to spend most of his time painting the walls of his classroom . |
| 9 | He was wearing the crumpled suit he had been wearing on the day Robert first saw him in the pub . |
| 10 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |
| 11 | He had been appearing on television at the time . |
| 12 | He had been sitting on the cart since early morning and all he had to show for scouring the streets was an old tin bath that he had found on some wasteground , a couple of sacks of rags and one or two pieces of old iron . |
| 13 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 14 | When one complainant alleged that he had been sitting in the Common Bench while the complainant had had his proper challenges to jurors refused , the auditors of complaints simply accepted his statement that he had been sitting on the bench not as a justice but as a well-wisher of the complainant 's opponent ( the prior of Sempringham ) . |
| 15 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 16 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
| 17 | He had been walking on the riverbank observing a high tide . |
| 18 | Robert denied a defence suggestion that he had been advancing on his brother and his family with his knife when he was shot . |
| 19 | He had been playing on the terrace , but he clambered to his feet and , yelling , ‘ Mo ’ car , ’ hurtled down the drive as fast as his little legs would carry him . |
| 20 | He had been lying on his back , looking at the ceiling with his eyes out of focus , taking his pulse over and over again to keep his mind empty . |
| 21 | He had been lying on his back , some distance away from her as usual , but as he spoke he turned on to his side , reaching out and laying a hand lightly across the smoothness of one slender thigh . |
| 22 | He had been working on it ever since the end of the war , and showing it in whole or in part to his friends . |
| 23 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 24 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
| 25 | He had been working on it for more than ten years . |
| 26 | A zoologist by training , he had been working on specimens collected by the Challenger Expedition . |
| 27 | After all , he had been working on the theory for twenty years , and did not want to see himself scooped by an outsider . |
| 28 | When Robert Burrows first became a Christian he had been working on a banana plantation , but some time after his conversion a Salvationist family gave him work on their dairy farm . |
| 29 | His ankle bone had been badly grazed a week before by a metal panel that he had been working on which had slipped from his grasp . |
| 30 | He had been working on a new series for BBC Radio 2 which is due to be broadcast next spring . |