Example sentences of "that he had [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 7 | And I knew that he had been watching the death of the tree too . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The affair lasted about three weeks then he broke it off and confessed to Sarah that he had been seeing someone else . |
| 10 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 11 | Then on Easter Sunday Pringle confronted best pal Jason Ward , 20 , with the suggestion that he had been seeing Leanne . |
| 12 | When the code was broken , it was found that he had been taking placebo rather than ursodeoxycholic acid . |
| 13 | If she could say playfully , in public , that he had been fiddling about with one design for three years , their conversations on his work in private must have been explosive . |
| 14 | Once he had told her , in a mood of taunting cruelty that sometimes overtook him , that he had been saving up quietly all these years , enough money " to be rid of you for ever " . |
| 15 | When Tom told his grandmother he was moving out of her house and confessed — because since the accident he had also stopped lying , could not be bothered with prevarication — that he had been busking at stations , she told him she was horrified , she was disappointed in him . |
| 16 | ‘ It came out in the court that he had been robbing old ladies … confidence trickster was the word . |
| 17 | Hubert Thomas , the father of Gordon Thomas , told the Parliamentary Committee of 1893–4 that he had been advising his Committee to buy the Union for some thirty years . |
| 18 | This , combined with the previous episode , created suspicion that he had been malingering to avoid going into action and resulted in his being charged with cowardice . |
| 19 | Burun remembered that the man 's name was Yuan , and that he had been staying with Nogai . |
| 20 | She heard Ben come into the market-room , but when the kitchen door did not immediately open , she went over to it and saw him throwing off a wet sack that he had been wearing over his head and shoulders like a cape . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | It only needed a quick glance to see that he had been rebuking her , for her face was flushed and angry and he wore the grim look that made him appear so formidable . |
| 23 | Barry Stewart , defending , said Gregory 's plea was based on the fact that he had been helping in the retention of the items . |
| 24 | The Brigadier set down a fat puppy that he had been holding and squelched towards the yard , driving a dozen pullets before him . |
| 25 | On closer questioning it was found that he had been harbouring strong transsexual feelings for some while and that the injury resulted from an urge to initiate a sex change . |
| 26 | If this went on much longer , the real Robert Wilson might emerge — that awful , jelly-like creature that he had been hiding from the world for the last twenty-four years . |
| 27 | Nabiyev , however , claimed that he had been touring the region to meet the population after recent mudslide disasters . |
| 28 | ( Charles also got the message that he was n't going to get the quick slurp of wine at the end of the evening that he had been promising himself . ) |
| 29 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 30 | The others looked at him almost in disbelief , but I could see that he had been thinking very carefully . |