Example sentences of "he had be [v-ing] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even though he had been expecting it — hoping for it , really — he resented the interruption because it broke his chain of concentration . |
| 2 | While the timing of the news came as a surprise to him , he said , he had been expecting it since February 1992 . |
| 3 | Oh , but this is the Niersteiner , the last bottle , and it would n't go very well with beef ’ He had been saving it for Sophia 's birthday . |
| 4 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 5 | He had been planning it long enough . |
| 6 | He had been saying it nightly now for three nights . |
| 7 | Which meant that he had been giving it considerable quiet thought . |
| 8 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |