Example sentences of "that he [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The whole idea that he 'd been thinking about since Christmas seemed pointless all of a sudden . |
| 2 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 3 | So much for Candy 's theory that he 'd been stalking Rory ! |
| 4 | He revealed that he 'd been intending to do an act at the Easter Fete but had abandoned it because he 'd decided it was a load of rubbish . |
| 5 | But then he frowned , because the key that he 'd been expecting did n't appear anywhere in the picture — |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 8 | Sinews bunched and moved under his skin like oiled spaghetti ; Carson guessed that he 'd been posing and flexing in front of a mirror . |
| 9 | I knocked on his door and when he answered I could tell from his face that he 'd been crying . |
| 10 | When he felt brave enough he took off the old pullover and the tracksuit pants that he 'd been sleeping in and started to dress . |
| 11 | The 18-year-old who caused the accident admitted that he 'd been driving recklessly . |
| 12 | And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant ! |
| 13 | And he was glad to have an excuse to put off telling her the news that he 'd been keeping to himself . |
| 14 | The publican replied that he 'd been talking to his dog . |
| 15 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 16 | I think it was just the final end of a long line of demands that he 'd been making . |
| 17 | " Dinner 's getting cold , " she murmured , smiling at his startled reaction ; he had n't been aware that he 'd been staring . |
| 18 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 19 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |
| 20 | Pascoe realized that he 'd been asking questions that Susan had n't answered . |
| 21 | Springsteen was out but there were tell-tale signs that he 'd been ruling the roost and no evidence that he was pining for my return . |
| 22 | Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part . |
| 23 | There were 23 other pairs — all younger and all seeming to possess the speed of Linford Christie around the court — and , when my partner greeted me with the news that he had been undergoing physiotherapy for a dodgy back all week , I felt that our interest would be peripheral , to say the least . |
| 24 | A second and earlier poem Moliant Cadwallon ( ‘ In Praise of Cadwallon ’ ) , possibly by Cadwallon 's bard , Afan Ferddig , celebrates Cadwallon 's victorious progress against Eadwine ‘ the deceitful ’ after his return from Ireland , where he may have been in exile , though an alternative possibility is that he had been gathering reinforcements there . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , they have demonstrated activity in the visual areas during an imaging task , in the language areas during a verbal task and even , on one - occasion , in the higher visual areas of a schizophrenic patient who subsequently reported that he had been hallucinating . |
| 26 | The star , hailed a hero after reports that he piloted his crippled executive jet to safety , refused to confirm that he had been flying the plane . |
| 27 | Only then did he fully realize that he had been experiencing a mild dull pressure in the head , as well as the nausea , physical and mental fatigue . |
| 28 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 29 | And I knew that he had been watching the death of the tree too . |
| 30 | I picked one of them up and was struck to the heart , for it was obvious that he had been writing a lot of poetry , all of it , so it seemed to me , very good . |